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Norse invaders ruled much of northern England, in the 9th and 10th centuries, and left English surnames of Norse origin in the area now called the Danelaw. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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Name Name meaning Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Eggthér: blade servant, eagle: None attested: None attested: Völuspá: Elldridr: Vilhjalms saga sjóðs: Eimgeitir: fire goat, smoke goat: None attested: None attested: Nafnaþulur: Eistla 'the stormy one', 'the glowing one' None attested
Luna, for example, is a name from Roman mythology and is the number 10 ranked name for baby girls. Others, like Eleuthia, have never cracked the top 1,000 list of boys ’ or girl s’ names in ...
These are family trees of the Norse gods showing kin relations among gods and other beings in Nordic mythology. Each family tree gives an example of relations according to principally Eddic material however precise links vary between sources. In addition, some beings are identified by some sources and scholars.
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Laufey or Nál is a figure in Norse mythology and the mother of Loki.The latter is frequently mentioned by the matronymic Loki Laufeyjarson (Old Norse 'Loki Laufey's son') in the Poetic Edda, rather than the expected traditional patronymic Loki Fárbautason ('son of Fárbauti'), in a mythology where kinship is usually reckoned through male ancestry.
In the Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál, there is a list of the sons of Odin, which does not altogether fit with what Snorri writes elsewhere. Nafnaþulur is not in all manuscripts of the Edda and appear independently, and are probably a later addition to Snorri's original composition.