In Germanic mythology, Myrkviðr (Old Norse "dark wood" or "black forest") is the name of several European forests. The direct derivatives of the name occur...

Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The term Mirkwood derives from the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology; that forest has been identified by scholars as representing...

1956), but contains some poetry in a similar style Eggers, M. (2002). "Myrkviðr". In Beck, Heinrich (ed.). Reallexikon der germansichen Altertumskunde...

to literary sources such as Beowulf, the Poetic Edda, or the mythical Myrkviðr. They have in addition suggested real-world places such as Venice, Rome...

Myrkviðr and the timelessness of the story show the poem to have moved into the realm of myth rather than historical legend. Alternatively, Myrkviðr could...

the hero is to show. It is separated from other countries by the forest Myrkviðr, but one source may locate it up in the north at Bjarmaland, another source...

between the Elbe and Saale rivers. The name occurs in the Norse form Myrkviðr ('dark wood') in the Edda story Lokasenna, and in Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks...

She was a shieldmaiden and was the commander of a Gothic fort facing Myrkviðr, and she would fall in battle against the Huns (see Hlöd, Hlöðskviða)....

tools and weapons, treasures, slaves, bondmaids, sons and daughters, Myrkviðr, the grave, the carved stone beside Dniepr, Heidrek's armour, lands, liegemen...

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Hjalmar and Ingeborg Hlöd Sifka Svafrlami Dwarves Dvalin Durin Locations Arheimar Bolmsö Gamla Uppsala Glæsisvellir Munarvágr Myrkviðr Reidgotaland Samsø...

Oium and bordered the land of the Huns from which it was separated by Myrkviðr. The territories of the Goths in southern Europe, according to Anglo-Saxon...

there and be the first to cut down its trees. In Norse myth and legend, Myrkviðr (or Mirkwood) was dark and dangerous forest that separated various lands;...

foretold destruction of Bifröst. The name Mirkwood derives from the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology. 19th-century writers interested in philology, including...

University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-09500-2. Eggers, M. (2002). "Myrkviðr". In Beck, Heinrich (ed.). Reallexikon der germansichen Altertumskunde...

how Freyr intends to fight when the Sons of Muspell ride over the wood Myrkviðr (an event during Ragnarök). Freyr's servant, Byggvir, interjects and the...

the northern borders of Austria to the Carpathians. Białowieża Forest Myrkviðr Broceliande Aristotle, Meteorologia i.13.20; Caesar, vi.25; Tacitus, Germania...

plains of the Danube (...á vígvöll á Dúnheiði í Dylgjudölum). The mythical Myrkviðr [Mirkwood] that separates the Goths from the Huns appears to correspond...

Miklagarðr "Big stronghold". Constantinople. *Miliniska, Μιλινισκα Smolensk Myrkviðr "Dark wood" or "black forest". The name of several European forests. Namsborg...

medieval legends of the Huns and the Goths. Garth notes that these state that Myrkviðr, upon which Mirkwood is based, is by the River Dnieper of Eastern Europe...