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The Prose and Poetic 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 myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are included here for the purpose of completeness.
Based on an interpretation of their names, he took Dáinn ("The Dead One") and Dvalinn ("The Unconscious One") to be calm winds, and Duneyrr ("Thundering in the Ear") and Duraþrór ("Thriving Slumber", perhaps referencing snoring) to be heavy winds. He interpreted the stags biting the leaves of the tree as winds tearing at clouds.
A related Old English plant name, dweorge-dwostle , might also suggest a belief in a dwarf-related malady or a connection with warding off the being responsible. Additionally, early place names such as Dueridene (now Dwarriden), Dwerihouse (now Dwerryhouse), and Dwerffehole hint at the presence of a supernatural concept of dwarfs, often ...
Mótsog the Dwarf appears in The Lord of the Rings Online video game, following J. R. R. Tolkien's tradition of using names from Völuspá for Middle-earth Dwarves.As in Tolkien's legendarium Durin was the first of the Dwarves, Mótsog is re-imagined as the second dwarf of Durin's clan, inverting their order from the Norse mythology.
Alvíss puts a ring around the arm of Þrúðr, by Lorenz Frølich. Alvíss (Old Norse: [ˈɑlˌwiːsː]; "All-Wise") was a dwarf in Norse mythology. [1]In the "Alvíssmál" poem within the 12th century Poetic Edda, Thor's daughter, Þrúðr, was promised in marriage to Alvíss.
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In Norse mythology, Dvalinn (Old Norse: [ˈdwɑlenː]) is a dwarf (Hjort) who appears in several Old Norse tales and kennings.The name translates as "the dormant one" or "the one slumbering" (akin to the Danish and Norwegian "dvale" and Swedish "dvala", meaning "sleep", "unconscious condition" or "hibernation").
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