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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 after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
Norse religious worship is the traditional religious rituals practiced by Norse pagans in Scandinavia in pre-Christian times. Norse religion was a folk religion (as opposed to an organized religion), and its main purpose was the survival and regeneration of society. Therefore, the faith was decentralized and tied to the village and the family ...
As a result, Norse mythology "long outlasted any worship of or belief in the gods it depicts". [106] There remained, however, remnants of Norse pagan rituals for centuries after Christianity became the dominant religion in Scandinavia (see Trollkyrka). Old Norse gods continued to appear in Swedish folklore up until the early 20th century.
A justification for this may be found in the Ynglinga saga, where Snorri opines that following the practice of seiðr rendered the practitioner weak and helpless. One possible example of seiðr in Norse mythology is the prophetic vision given to Óðinn in the Vǫluspá by the völva after whom the poem is named.
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic, [1] or Old Scandinavian, ... classical mythology, and the Old Testament, as well as instructional material, ...
In Norse mythology, the Aesir are one of two families of gods, the other being the Vanir: the most important gods of Norse mythology belong to the Aesir and the term can also be used for the gods in general. [117] The Vanir appear to have been mostly fertility gods. [120]
10th-century picture stone from the Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a gýgr riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin. A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn / ˈ j ɔː t ʊ n /; [1] or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.
Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence with, folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi.