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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.
Two dwarfs as depicted in a 19th-century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. A dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history; however, they are commonly, but not exclusively, presented as living in mountains or stones ...
A duende, according to the Chamorro-English Dictionary by Donald Topping, Pedro Ogo and Bernadita Dungca, is a goblin, elf, ghost or spook in the form of a dwarf, a mischievous spirit which hides or takes small children. Some believe the Duende to be helpful or shy creatures, while others believe them to be mischievous and eat misbehaving children.
The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia considers Tolkien's use of the adjective "thrawn", noting its similarity with Þráinn, a noun meaning "obstinate person", and a name found in the Norse list of Dwarf-names, the Dvergatal in the Völuspá. Tolkien took it for the name, Thráin, of two of Thorin Oakenshield's ancestors.
The following is a list of names of the Seven Dwarfs from various adaptations of the Snow White story. Some adaptations do not name the dwarfs, have seven non-dwarfs (such as the seven Leafe Knights in the anime Prétear - The New Legend of Snow White) or omit them altogether (as in the 1998 opera Schneewittchen).
In this fun infographic, explore the world of baby animals. Find out what they’re called, and learn a fun fact about each. ... Baby Animals 101: Fun Names and Surprising Facts. Ashley Haugen ...
This is a list of brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. [1] The first isolated brown dwarf discovered was Teide 1 in 1995. [2] The first brown dwarf discovered orbiting a star was Gliese 229 B, also discovered in 1995. [3] The first brown dwarf found to have a planet was 2M1207, discovered ...
4. Doberman pinscher. The Doberman pinscher (and that’s “pinscher” with and S-C-H, not “pincher”) gets the “Doberman” part of its name from a German dog breeder named Louis Dobermann.