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Gjöll is the river that flows closest to the gate of the underworld. Within the Norse mythology, the dead must cross the Gjallarbrú , the bridge over Gjöll, to reach Hel . The bridge, which was guarded by Móðguðr , was crossed by Hermóðr during his quest to retrieve Baldr from the land of the dead.
Bern Verona. Bertangaland Brittany.Mentioned in the Þiðreks saga. Bjarmaland The southern shores of the White Sea and the basin of the Northern Dvina.Many historians assume the terms beorm and bjarm to derive from the Uralic word perm, which refers to "travelling merchants" and represents the Old Permic culture.
The Old Norse name Ægir ('sea') may stem from a Proto-Germanic form *āg w i-jaz ('that of the river/water'), [1] itself a derivative of the stem *ahwō-('river'; cf. Gothic aƕa 'body of water, river', Old English ēa 'stream', Old High German aha 'river'). [2] Richard Cleasby and Guðbrandur Vigfússon saw his name as deriving from an ...
A reference to the river Leiptr appears in Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, where the Valkyrie Sigrún puts a curse on her brother Dagr for having murdered her husband Helgi Hundingsbane despite him having sworn a holy oath of allegiance to Helgi on the "bright water of Leiptr" (ljósa Leiftrar vatni):
In Norse cosmology, Niflheim or Niflheimr (Old Norse: [ˈnivlˌhɛimz̠]; "World of Mist", [1] literally "Home of Mist") is a location which sometimes overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel. The name Niflheimr appears only in two extant sources: Gylfaginning and the much-debated Hrafnagaldr Óðins.
'Mae' in Thai is an abbreviation for "river", while 'khong' is an old Austroasiatic word for river. Mekong River can thus be translated as "river river river" Molopo River, South Africa (River River – Setswana) River Ouse, various in England and Scotland (River River – from Brythonic usa meaning water, river or stream).
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