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    Hávamál (English: /ˈhɔːvəˌmɔːl/ HAW-və-mawl; Old Norse: Hávamál, classical pron. [ˈhɒːwaˌmɒːl], Modern Icelandic pron. [ˈhauːvaˌmauːl̥], ‘Words of Hávi...
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  • to attain happiness is particularly expressed in stanza 8 of Hávamál. Stanza 18 of Hávamál states that a man who always stays at home will become dull...
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  • Loddfáfnir is a character in the Eddic poem the Hávamál, to whom the discourse on morals, ethics, and correct action is directed. Fáfnir - A similarly...
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  • a poem by the skald Einarr Helgarson refers to Odin as "Bestla's son". Hávamál (140) makes Bölþor(n) the grandfather of Bestla. Odin recounts his gaining...
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  • Falkenbach (redirect from Havamal (Album))
    pagan metal. The band was formed in Iceland in 1989, when it recorded the Hávamál demo, and has recorded a total of seven demos; however, only five are known...
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    as hard as he could. — Skáldskaparmál, 58, trans. A. Faulkes, 1987 In Hávamál (Sayings of the High One), the account given by Odin differs in a number...
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  • used in Gylfaginning (The Beguiling of Gylfi), whereas Bölþor occurs in Hávamál (Sayings of the High One). The Old Norse name Bölþorn has been translated...
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  • Lothbrok in one volume. His book The Wanderer's Hávamál (2019) includes the Old Norse text of the poem Hávamál with Crawford's page-facing English translation...
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    Hákonarmál that are also found in Hávamál. It is possible that he was quoting a known poem, but it is also possible that Hávamál, or at least the strophe in...
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    Yggdrasil (section Hávamál)
    means "horse" and Ygg(r) is one of Odin's many names. The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this...
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    with death by hanging; this is apparent in Hávamál, a poem found in the Poetic Edda. In stanza 138 of Hávamál, Oðinn describes his self-sacrifice, in which...
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    Omniglot.com – Elder Futhark Rune Converter hosted by Viking Rune Futhark Hávamál Select stanzas of the Hávamál rendered in Elder Futhark and English...
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    divine origin". In the Poetic Edda poem Hávamál, Stanza 80, the runes also are described as reginkunnr: The poem Hávamál explains that the originator of the...
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    returning gods will meet and recall Odin's deeds and "ancient runes". The poem Hávamál (Old Norse 'Sayings of the High One') consists entirely of wisdom verse...
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    encrypted in the Rúnatal of the Poetic Edda (stanzas 138 to 165 of the Hávamál), with stanzas 147 through 165, where Odin enumerates eighteen wisdoms...
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  • the mead itself. Óðrerir is mentioned in two ambiguous passages of the Hávamál. In a first stanza (107), it is sometimes assumed that Óðrerir is synonymous...
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    mentioned in stanzas 19 and 20 of the poem Völuspá, and stanza 111 of the poem Hávamál. In stanza 19 of Völuspá, Urðarbrunnr is described as being located beneath...
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  • chanting the poem aloud results in a "marvellously incantatory effect". Galdr Hávamál Mímir Merseburg Incantations Gordon (1962:92–93). Macleod (2006:127). Mayr-Harting...
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  • translation of the Panchatantra Poetic Edda written in Codex Regius, including Hávamál and Völwpá c. 1270–1278 – Witelo – Perspectiva 1274 Joseph ben Abraham...
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    wisdom for its own sake. Works and Days by Hesiod (c. 750–650 BC) and Hávamál from Old Norse texts (c. 1200) have both been analyzed in terms of the...
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    topic the last book of his "The Revival of the Religious Sciences". The Hávamál ("Sayings of the High One"), a 13th-century Icelandic compilation poetically...
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    (A New Beginning)" by Burzum, on the last track of the album entitled "Hávamál". In 1978, Sveinbjörn appeared on the television program In Search Of in...
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  • gleaned from various sources including the Poetic Edda (particularly the Hávamál and the Sigrdrífumál), and as evident in the Icelandic Sagas). The Nine...
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    him and that it divulged information from other worlds. On the basis of Hávamál 140 – where Odin learns nine magic songs from the unnamed brother of his...
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    and returned to Asgard. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Suttungr. Hávamál, Poetic Edda Prose Edda Suttung Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • Yggdrasill Dáinn, an elf who introduced the runes to his race according to Hávamál Dáin II Ironfoot, dwarf-king from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium...
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    Denmark and Norway. The tradition is mentioned in both Ynglinga saga and Hávamál: For men of consequence a mound should be raised to their memory, and for...
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  • funeral song. The song (and album) closes with the famous stanza from Hávamál: "Cattle die, kinsmen die, You yourself will also die, but the word about...
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  • name. Dellingr is referenced in the Poetic Edda poems Vafþrúðnismál and Hávamál. In stanza 24 of Vafþrúðnismá, the god Odin (disguised as "Gagnráðr") asks...
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  • Miðgarðr, Midgard* Niflheimr, Niflheim Útgarðr, Utgard* Æsir, Aesir* Hávamál, Havamal Ragnarǫk, Ragnarok Vǫluspá, Völuspá, Voluspa Yggdrasill, Yggdrasil*...
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