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Ask to Embla is the title of a poem, parts of which are quoted, by R. H. Ash, one of the protagonists in A. S. Byatt's novel Possession: A Romance, which won the Booker prize in 1990. In the video game Fire Emblem Heroes , the two main warring kingdoms are Askr and Embla, which is where the Summoner, the player, finds themselves in, as the ...
In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla were the first man and woman, created from trees and given various gifts of life by three gods. According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assidous labour; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man ...
Ask and Embla's ultimate origin in Proto-Indo-European religion seems to be pretty well established. :bloodofox: ( talk ) 00:55, 18 October 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] Yeah, the more I thought about it, I think most religions have a first man-and-woman-type story.
He may be identical to Lóðurr, one of the three gods creating the two first humans Ask and Embla. Contrary to this, Anatoly Liberman rejects the identity of Lýtir and Lóðurr and returns to the old idea that Lýtir was a cognomen of Freyr , who may have been known in Sweden as Freyr Lýtir .
Stig Blomberg (October 16, 1901 – December 19, 1970) was a Swedish sculptor.He was born in Linköping.. In 1936 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the summer Olympic Games for his "Brottande pojkar" ("Wrestling Youths"). [1]
Gjallarbrú (literally "Gjöll Bridge") is a bridge in Norse mythology which spans the river Gjöll in the underworld.It must be crossed in order to reach Hel.. According to Gylfaginning it is described as a covered bridge, "thatched with glittering gold".
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The legend of Jörmunrek appears in the Poetic Edda as Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt.It also appears in Bragi Boddason's Ragnarsdrápa, in the Völsunga saga and in Gesta Danorum.