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NORSE MYTHOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Norse mythology" is a kind of...):
mythology (myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person)
Domain member category:
Jotun; Jotunn ((Norse mythology) one of a group of giants often in conflict with the Aesir)
Loki ((Norse mythology) trickster; god of discord and mischief; contrived death of Balder and was overcome by Thor)
Mimir ((Norse mythology) giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom)
Nanna ((Norse mythology) wife of Balder)
Njord; Njorth ((Norse mythology) chief of the Vanir; god of the sea and winds and prosperity; father of Frey and Freya; sometimes subsumes Teutonic Nerthus)
Norn; weird sister ((Norse mythology) any of the three goddesses of destiny; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae)
Odin ((Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan)
Sif ((Norse mythology) wife of Thor and guardian of the home)
Sigyn ((Norse mythology) wife of Loki; held a cup over him during his punishment to spare him the pain of drops of poison)
Thor ((Norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; identified with Teutonic Donar)
Tyr; Tyrr ((Norse mythology) god of war and strife and son of Odin; identified with Anglo-Saxon Tiu)
Ull; Ullr ((Norse mythology) one of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis; son of Sif and stepson of Thor)
Vali ((Norse mythology) one of the Aesir and avenger of Balder; son of Odin)
Vidar; Vithar; Vitharr ((Norse mythology) one of the Aesir; son of Odin; avenges his parent by slaying Fenrir at Ragnarok)
Fenrir ((Norse mythology) an enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin)
Volund ((Norse mythology) a wonderful smith; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wayland and Teutonic Wieland)
Ygdrasil; Yggdrasil ((Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together)
Ymir ((Norse mythology) the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world: the sea from his blood; the earth from his flesh; the mountains from his bones; the sky from his skull)
Brunhild; Brunnhilde; Brynhild (a Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried; when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide)
Valkyrie ((Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla)
Asgard ((Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes)
Valhalla; Walhalla ((Norse mythology) the hall in which the souls of heros slain in battle were received by Odin)
Midgard ((Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology)
Fafnir ((Norse mythology) the Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd)
Sigurd ((Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart)
Aesir ((Norse mythology) the chief of gods living at Asgard)
Andvari ((Norse mythology) a dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki)
Vanir ((Norse mythology) group of ancient gods sometimes in conflict with the Aesir)
Balder; Baldr ((Norse mythology) god of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature; son of Odin and Frigg and husband of Nanna; killed by Hoth)
Brage; Bragi ((Norse mythology) god of poetry and music; son of Odin)
Elli ((Norse mythology) goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match)
Forseti ((Norse mythology) god of justice; son of Balder and Nanna)
Frey; Freyr ((Norse mythology) god of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity; son of Njorth and brother of Freya; originally of the Vanir; later with the Aesir)
Freya; Freyja ((Norse mythology) goddess of love and fecundity; daughter of Njorth and sister of Frey)
Frigg; Frigga ((Norse mythology) goddess of the heavens and married love; wife of Odin)
Heimdal; Heimdall; Heimdallr ((Norse mythology) god of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard)
Hel; Hela ((Norse mythology) goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld)
Hoenir ((Norse mythology) one of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind)
Hoder; Hodr; Hodur; Hoth; Hothr ((Norse mythology) a blind god; misled by Loki, he kills his brother Balder by throwing a shaft of mistletoe)
Idun; Ithunn ((Norse mythology) goddess of spring and wife of Bragi; guarded the apples that kept the gods eternally young)
Domain region:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
