The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses...
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Tanngnjóstr Valkyrie List of Norse gods List of jötnar in Norse mythology The Nine Worlds of Norse mythology Numbers in Norse mythology Norse mythological influences...
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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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Jötunn (redirect from Giants (Norse mythology))
that jötnar have begun to be seen negatively relative to risar. Troll has a much wider semantic scope in Old Norse literature than solely jötnar, also...
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Jötunheimr (category Locations in Norse mythology)
either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes inaccurately called "giants")...
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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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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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Yggdrasil (redirect from Moin (mythology))
Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil...
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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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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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