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    Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing...
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  • Norse Mythology is a 2017 book by Neil Gaiman, which retells several stories from Norse mythology. In the introduction, Gaiman describes where his fondness...
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  • The Norse mythology, preserved ancient Icelandic texts such as the Poetic Edda, the Prose Edda, and other lays and sagas, was little known outside Scandinavia...
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    Norse mythology, such as notations of time and space, cosmogony, personifications, anthropogeny, and eschatology. Like other aspects of Norse mythology, these...
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  • The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and...
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    10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt. In Norse mythology, Sól is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from...
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    Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic...
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  • Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of dwarfs. While many of them are featured in extant...
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    Heldendichtung des Mittelalters. Breslau: M. & H. Marcus. Lindow, John (2001). Norse mythology : a guide to the Gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs. Oxford: Oxford...
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    alphabet. Numerous Old Norse works dated to the 13th-century record Norse mythology, a component of North Germanic religion. Old Norse religion was polytheistic...
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    Sif (redirect from Sif (Norse mythology))
    In Norse mythology, Sif is a golden-haired goddess associated with earth. Sif is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier...
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    Troll (redirect from Troll (mythology))
    A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains...
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  • speakers of Old Norse from about the 9th to the 13th centuries. Norse may also refer to: Norse mythology Norse paganism Norse art Norse activity in the...
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    weapons. (Persian mythology) Golden Coat of Chainmail, part of Fafnir's treasure which Sigurd took after he slew the dragon. (Norse mythology) Green Armor...
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  • Norse mythology includes a diverse array of people, places, creatures, and other mythical elements. Álfheim Asgard Bifröst Bilskirnir Breidablik Elivagar...
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    Garmr (redirect from Garm (Norse mythology))
    In Norse mythology, Garmr or Garm (Old Norse: Garmr [ˈɡɑrmz̠]) is a wolf or dog associated with both Hel and Ragnarök, and described as a blood-stained...
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    Old Norse, jǫtunn /ˈjɔːtʊn/; or, in Old English, eoten - plural eotenas) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, they...
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  • In Norse mythology, Sindri (Old Norse: [ˈsindre], from sindr, "slag") is the name of both a dwarf and a hall that will serve as a dwelling place for the...
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  • Hindu mythology where Manu saves the Earth from the deluge by building an ark as well as Greek, Norse mythology, Inca mythology and Aztec mythology. The...
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  • in Norse mythology Paleo-Balkan mythology Processional giant Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France Proto-Indo-European mythology Typhon...
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    and languages of Middle-earth from many sources. Among these are Norse mythology, seen in his Dwarves, Wargs, Trolls, Beorn and the barrow-wight, places...
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  • the Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien took the name "Gandalf" from the Old Norse "Catalogue of Dwarves" (Dvergatal) in the Völuspá. As a wizard and the bearer...
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    In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (/ˈræɡnəˌrɒk, ˈrɑːɡ-/ ; Old Norse: Ragnarǫk) is a foretold series of impending events, including a great battle in which...
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  • Hel (redirect from Hel (Norse mythology))
    Hel (location), a location in Norse mythology Hel (mythological being), ruler of Hel, the location in Norse mythology Hel, a battle-axe used by Magnus...
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  • Logi (Old Norse: [ˈloɣe], 'fire, flame') or Hálogi ([ˈhɑːˌloɣe], 'High Flame') is a jötunn and the personification of fire in Norse mythology. He is a...
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    Urðr (redirect from Urd (Norse Mythology))
    Urðr (Old Norse "fate") is one of the Norns in Norse mythology. Along with Verðandi (possibly "happening" or "present") and Skuld (possibly "debt" or "future")...
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  • Empires series, Age of Mythology takes some of its inspiration from mythology and legends of the Greeks, Egyptians, and Norse, rather than from actual...
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    Proto-Indo-European mythology. The main mythologies used in comparative reconstruction are Indo-Iranian, Baltic, Roman, and Norse, often supported with...
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    scientific fact." Norse mythology appears in the shape of the "good-guy aliens the Asgard", deriving explicitly in the fiction from Norse Asgard. In her...
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