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The Old Norse theonym Baldr ('brave, defiant'; also 'lord, prince') and its various Germanic cognates – including Old English Bældæg and Old High German Balder (or Palter) – probably stems from Proto-Germanic *Balðraz ('Hero, Prince'; cf. Old Norse mann-baldr 'great man', Old English bealdor 'prince, hero'), itself a derivative of *balþaz, meaning 'brave' (cf. Old Norse ballr 'hard ...
Hermóðr (Old Norse: [ˈhermˌoːðz̠], "war-spirit"; [1] anglicized as Hermod) is a figure in Norse mythology, a son of the god Odin and brother of Baldr.
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The proper names Mímir and Mim present difficulties for historical linguists. However, the most generally accepted etymology among philologists is that Mímir stems from a reduplication of the Proto-Indo-European verb *(s)mer-, meaning 'to think, recall, reflect, worry over' (compare Sanskrit smárati, Avestan hi-šmaraiti, Ancient Greek mermaírō, Gothic maúrnan).
The Old Norse form of the word was berserkr (plural berserkir), a compound word of ber and serkr. The second part, serkr , means ' shirt ' (also found in Middle English , see serk ). The first part, ber , on the other hand, can mean several things, but is assumed to have most likely meant ' bear ' , with the full word, berserkr , meaning just ...
The name Geri has been interpreted as meaning either "the greedy one" or "the ravenous one". [1] The name Geri can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic adjective *geraz, attested in Burgundian girs, Old Norse gerr, Old Swedish giri, Old High German ger or giri and Old Dutch gir, all of which mean "greedy". [2]
The theonym Bragi probably stems from the masculine noun bragr, which can be translated in Old Norse as 'poetry' (cf. Icelandic bragur 'poem, melody, wise') or as 'the first, noblest' (cf. poetic Old Norse bragnar 'chiefs, men', bragningr 'king'). It is unclear whether the theonym semantically derives from the first meaning or the second. [1]
The Giant with the Flaming Sword (1909) by John Charles Dollman. In Norse mythology, Surtr (Old Norse "black" [1] or more narrowly "swart", [2] Surtur in modern Icelandic), also sometimes written Surt in English, [3] is a jötunn; he is the greatest of the fire giants and further serves as the guardian of Muspelheim, which is one of the only two realms to exist before the beginning of time ...