Concept cluster: History > Norse Mythology
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Alternative spelling of Æsir [The principal group of benevolent deities in the Norse pantheon, representing power and war; opponents of the Vanir.]
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In Norse mythology, one of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun.
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(Greek mythology) A nymph, the wife of Poseidon.
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(Norse mythology) A magical ring useful in locating sources of gold.
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(Celtic mythology) The personification of death in Breton mythology.
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(Norse mythology) One of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun.
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(Germanic paganism, rare) Asgard.
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(Norse mythology) The realm of the Æsir gods.
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(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Asgard
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(Norse mythology) The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.
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(Norse mythology) The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Freya, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.
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(Norse mythology) The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.
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(mythology) A frost giant in Norse mythology.
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(Norse mythology) The rainbow bridge that connects Asgard with Midgard.
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(Norse mythology) The hall of the god Thor in Asgard, containing 540 rooms.
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A Norse (and modern Heathen) ceremonial offering.
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(Germanic mythology) A shieldmaiden and valkyrie in Germanic mythology, a main character in the Nibelungenlied, Völsunga saga, and some poems of the Poetic Edda.
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(Chinese mythology) the Chinese goddess of the moon
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A fictional man in Slavic culture who delivers presents to children on New Year's Eve.
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(mythology) The dawn god of pagan Scandinavia.
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(mythology, folklore) In Filipino folklore, a spirit, usually a lesser god or goddess, believed to guard natural features such as forests.
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The daylight-sky god in Proto-Indo-European mythology.
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Alternative spelling of einherjar [(Norse mythology) The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast and prepare for Ragnarok.]
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(Norse mythology) The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast and prepare for Ragnarok.
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Good King Henry (Blitum bonus-henricus)
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A giant from Old English literature and mythology.
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(dialectal, archaic, fantasy) A giant.
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(Norse mythology) a son of the dwarf king Hreidmar, who killed his father, transformed into a lindworm, a type of dragon, and was subsequently slain by Regin and Sigurd.
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(mythology) The god of the sky in various cultures.
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(Norse mythology) A monstrous wolf, one of Loki's offspring, who bites off Tyr's right hand while being bound by the gods in fear of a prophecy that he will kill Odin, remaining so bound until the events of Ragnarok.
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(Norse mythology) One of the signs of the onset of the end of this world, the final, three-year-long winter (with no intervening summers); it marks the coming of the Ragnarok, the battle that will end the world.
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(Norse mythology) A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.
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(Norse mythology) A Vanir god associated with kingship and virility in the North Germanic corpus, in which he rides the shining boar Gullinbursti and wields an antler as a weapon. He is sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr.
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(Germanic mythology, Norse mythology) The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).
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Alternative form of Frigg (“goddess”) [(Germanic mythology, Norse mythology) The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).]
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Alternative form of futhark [The Germanic runic alphabet; especially specifically the Elder or Younger futhark alphabet (of Scandinavia and the European mainland), as contrasted with the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.]
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Alternative spelling of futhorc [The Runic alphabet as used to write Old English and Old Frisian.]
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(Norse mythology) A meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja, the afterlife for half of those people dying in combat, the other half going to Valhalla.
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A similar style of chanting that is a modern reinvention of Norse and later magical traditions.
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A jotun.
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(Norse mythology) The binding that holds Fenrir, a chain made of six impossible objects forged together by the dwarves.
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(Norse mythology) The hall of Forseti, the Norse god of law and justice, and the seat of justice amongst gods and men.
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(Norse mythology) A giant bronze mechanical boar forged by Brokkr and Eitri as a gift for the god Freyr.
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(Norse mythology and paganism) The spear of the Norse god Odin, which is believed to never miss its target.
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(Germanic mythology) The myth of the destruction of the gods in a final battle with the forces of evil; the apocalypse.
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(Norse mythology, rare) A giantess; a female giant.
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(Norse mythology) The Norse god who guards the rainbow bridge Bifrost, using his keen eyesight and hearing to watch for invaders and the onset of Ragnarok.
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Alternative form of Hecate [The powerful goddess, in Greek mythology, of magic, crossroads, fire, light, the moon, and the underworld. Her Roman counterpart is Trivia.]
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Alternative form of Hel (Norse goddess) [(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.]
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(Norse mythology) Odin's cloud-throne above Asgard.
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Alternative form of Hlidhskjalf [(Norse mythology) Odin's cloud-throne above Asgard.]
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Alternative form of Höðr [(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.]
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(Norse mythology) The horse ridden by Nótt (night).
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(Norse mythology) one of a pair of ravens, the other being Muninn, who fly throughout the world and report any unusual events back to Odin. They are essentially Odin's messengers
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A New Age theory of metaphysics introduced by Max Freedom Long (1890–1971), who linked it to ancient Hawaiian kahunas.
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(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.
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Alternative form of Höðr [(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.]
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(mythology) A monster in Inuit mythology.
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(Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.
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Alternative form of jotun [(Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.]
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(Norse mythology) The World Serpent or Midgard Serpent, an offspring of Loki, which is thrown into the ocean by Odin but grows to encircle the world, and is finally slain during Ragnarok by Thor, who then succumbs to its poisonous breath.
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Alternative form of jotun [(Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.]
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(Norse mythology) the realm of the Jötnar gods
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Alternative form of jotun [(Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.]
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(Norse mythology) also known as Hálogi he is the jötunn (giant of Norse mythology) of fire; he is the personification of fire in Norse mythology.
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(Germanic paganism) One who honours Loki as their primary god.
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(Norse mythology) The god of mischief and trickery; growing progressively evil, he kills Balder, and is bound until Ragnarok, the end of the world.
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Alternative form of Mania (“Roman goddess of the dead”) [(Roman mythology) The goddess of the dead and ghosts.]
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The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives.
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(mythology) A spider demigod in Palauan mythology who introduced natural childbirth.
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(Norse mythology) The Earth of traditional Germanic cosmology, conceived as a middle realm between heaven (Asgard) and hell (Helheim); the abode of human beings, between those of the gods (Æsir) and the dead.
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(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Midgard
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(Greek mythology) A monster, half man and half bull, who dwelled in the labyrinth in Crete and who was killed by Theseus.
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Alternative spelling of Mjollnir [(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.]
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(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.
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Alternative spelling of Mjollnir [(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.]
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Alternative spelling of Mjollnir [(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.]
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Alternative spelling of Mjollnir [(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.]
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Alternative spelling of Mjollnir [(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.]
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Alternative spelling of Mjollnir [(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.]
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Alternative spelling of Mjollnir [(Norse mythology) The hammer of the Norse god Thor.]
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The Slavic goddess of the earth, moisture, weaving, fertility, women, life, and death.
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(Norse mythology) One of a pair of ravens, the other being Huginn, who fly throughout the entire world and report any unusual events back to Odin. They are essentially Odin's messengers.
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(Norse mythology and Germanic paganism) The primordial realm of fire which existed to the south of Ginnungagap.
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A figure in Norse mythology renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, beheaded during the Æsir-Vanir War, after which Odin receives secret knowledge and counsel from the severed head.
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The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology.
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(Germanic mythology) A member of a supernatural underground race that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.
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(Norse mythology) the realm of the dwarves, one of the nine realms
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(Norse mythology) a dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned.
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(Norse mythology and paganism) A major Germanic god, often described as chief of the pantheon, in his Norse form a member of the Æsir, married to Frigg and associated with knowledge, poetry and war. Wednesday refers to him by way of interpretatio germanica.
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(rare) A poet.
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The highest god in the pantheon of Slavic mythology, the god of thunder and lightning.
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(Polari) To talk.
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(Norse mythology) A series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and einherjar on one side, and the forces of Surtr, Loki, and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.
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Alternative form of Ragnarok [(Norse mythology) A series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and einherjar on one side, and the forces of Surtr, Loki, and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.]
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(Norse mythology, sagas and Germanic paganism, kenning) The god Thor.
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A form of Norse neopaganism or Asatru that focuses on veneration of the Jotun and chaotic deities such as Loki.
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(mythology, Shinto) A dragon god also known as Watatsumi and Suijin, the tutelary deity of the sea in Japanese mythology.
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(Norse mythology) Freyja's hall in the Fólkvangr, her room for half of the those slain on the battlefield.
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A diver in Native American mythology who dared the North Wind to single combat.
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(Norse mythology) A golden-haired goddess associated with earth, mother of Ullr and wife of Thor.
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(Norse mythology) The principal hero of the Volsungasaga and of the Elder Edda's Niflung cycle, who slew a dragon.
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(Norse mythology) The horse ridden by Dagr (day).
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Alternative form of Santal [Of or pertaining to the Santals.]
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The god of the winds, air and sky in Slavic mythology.
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(Norse mythology) A very powerful jotun (giant) and chief of Muspellheim, described in the Eddas as wielding a flaming (or shining) sword and as battling the gods and killing Freyr during Ragnarok.
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(Slavic mythology) the god of fire, blacksmithing, and possibly sky.
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(Norse mythology) the realm of the Svartálfar gods, also known as the Myrkálfar
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(Norse mythology) a race of black or dark elves that populate Svartálfaheimr, one of the nine realms
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(Norse mythology) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.
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(Germanic paganism) The plant houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum), as used in Heathenry.
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(Norse mythology, Germanic paganism) Mjöllnir (Mjollnir), the distinctively T-shaped war-hammer of the Norse thunder god Thor, or a representation thereof, now used as a symbol by various pagan religious groups.
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(mythology) An Old English deity identified with Thor and associated with Jupiter.
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The god Tyr, especially in an Anglo-Saxon context; Tiw.
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(Norse mythology) Ragnarok
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(Norse mythology) an Áss associated with archery and skiing; the stepson of Thor.
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(Norse mythology) The abode of the giant Utgard-Loki, on the other side of the great sea that surrounds Midgard.
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(mythology) The main entrance to Valhalla in Norse mythology.
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Alternative form of Valhalla [(Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.]
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(Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.
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Alternative spelling of valkyrie [(Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.]
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Alternative form of Vanaheimr [(Norse mythology) the realm populated by the Vanir gods, one of the nine realms]
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(Norse mythology) the realm populated by the Vanir gods, one of the nine realms
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The principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
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(Slavic mythology) The pagan Slavic god of the fertile earth, livestock, waters, and the underworld, often portrayed as a chimera.
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(Norse mythology) A god, son of Odin.
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(Norse mythology) The hall of the goddesses, where righteous men and those slain in battle go after death.
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In Norse mythology, one of two brothers of Odin.
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(Norse mythology) A plain that will be the site of a battle between the gods and Surtur during Ragnarok.
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(historical) In Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy.
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Alternative form of udjat (“the Eye of Horus”) [Synonym of Eye of Horus.]
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Alternative form of valkyrie [(Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.]
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(Egyptology) a type of sceptre with an animal head and a forked tail appearing in Ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphs
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(Norse mythology, archaic) Vígríðr (plain that will be the site of a battle during Ragnarok)
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(Norse mythology and Germanic paganism) Yggdrasil.
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(Germanic mythology) Odin, especially in his continental Germanic form.
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(Norse mythology) An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.
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Alternative spelling of Yggdrasil [(Norse mythology) An immense ash tree that is central in Norse cosmology, believed to connect the nine worlds.]
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(Norse mythology) The first creature to come into being and the ancestor of all jötnar. Upon his death, the gods fashioned the world from his body.
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(Norse mythology) home of the Ljósálfar (Light Elves) and one of the nine realms, also called Ljosalfheim.
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(Norse mythology) A giant and king of the sea, personifying the power thereof. He is the son of Fornjótr, and the brother of Logi and Kári. He has nine daughters — the billow maidens — by his wife, Rán, namely: Bára, Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, and Unnr.
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The principal group of benevolent deities in the Norse pantheon, representing power and war; opponents of the Vanir.
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(mythology) In Norse mythology, the husband of Freya and father of Hnoss and Gersemi.
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(rare or archaic) Alternative spelling of Thor [(Norse mythology) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.]

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