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  2. Ask and Embla - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla (Old Norse: Askr ok Embla)—man and woman respectively—were the first two humans, created by the gods. The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda , composed in the 13th century.

  3. Old Norse religion - Wikipedia

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    The Old Norse word brúðhlaup has cognates in many other Germanic languages and means "bride run"; it has been suggested that this indicates a tradition of bride-stealing, but other scholars including Jan de Vries interpreted it as indicating a rite of passage conveying the bride from her birth family to that of her new husband. [215]

  4. Norse rituals - Wikipedia

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    [32] [33] However the word höll is not found in place names and is likely to have been borrowed into East Norse from German or English in the late period. [34] [dubious – discuss] The vé is another kind of holy place and is also the most unambiguous name used for holy places in Scandinavia. The word comes from the proto-Germanic *wîha ...

  5. List of English words of Old Norse origin - Wikipedia

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    Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw). Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg or knife. There are hundreds of such ...

  6. Fylgja - Wikipedia

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    The word fylgja means "to accompany". [2] The term fylgja is typically translated into English as "fetch", a similar being from Irish folklore. [3]The term fylgja also has the meaning of "afterbirth, caul", and it has been argued by Gabriel Turville-Petre [4] (cf. § Placenta origins) that the concept of the supernatural fylgja cannot be completely dissociated from this secondary meaning; in ...

  7. Vörðr - Wikipedia

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    The English word '"wraith" is derived from vǫrðr, while "ward" and "warden" are cognates. At times, the warden could reveal itself as a small light or as the shape ( hamr ) of the person. The perception of another person's warden could cause a physical sensation such as an itching hand or nose, as a foreboding or an apparition.

  8. Sól (Germanic mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Sól (Old Norse: , "Sun") [1] or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary sunna, "Sun") is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations, written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt.

  9. Logi (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Logi (Old Norse: , 'fire, flame') or Hálogi ([ˈhɑːˌloɣe], 'High Flame') is a jötunn and the personification of fire in Norse mythology. He is a son of the jötunn Fornjótr and the brother of Ægir or Hlér ('sea') and Kári ('wind'). Logi married fire giantess Glöð and she gave birth to their two beautiful daughters—Eisa and Eimyrja.