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Axel Kock has proposed Fárbauti's name and character may have been inspired by the observation of the natural phenomena surrounding the appearance of wildfire.If Fárbauti as "dangerous striker" refers to "lightning", the figure would appear to be part of an early nature myth alluding to wildfire (Loki) being produced by lightning (Fárbauti) striking dry tinder such as leaves (Laufey) or ...
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 ...
Loki with a fishing net (per Reginsmál) as depicted on an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript (SÁM 66). Loki is a god in Norse mythology.He is the son of Fárbauti (a jötunn) and Laufey (a goddess), and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr.
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Name Name meaning Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Ægir "Sea" Hlér Gymir (contested): Father: Fornjótr Brothers: Logi, Kári Wife: Rán Daughters ...
A loving father of two, a former college football player, and a student from the University of Alabama were among the 14 people killed when a rented pickup truck plowed into a crowd celebrating ...
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.