Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Ships in Norse mythology" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H. Hringhorni; N.
The third gift – an enormous hammer (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith.The bottom right corner depicts the ship Skíðblaðnir "afloat" the goddess Sif's new hair.. Skíðblaðnir (Old Norse: [ˈskiːðˌblɑðnez̠], 'assembled from thin pieces of wood' [1]), sometimes anglicized as Skidbladnir or Skithblathnir, is the best of ships in Norse mythology.
In Norse mythology, Naglfar or Naglfari (Old Norse "nail farer") is a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. During the events of Ragnarök, Naglfar is foretold to sail to Vígríðr, ferrying hordes of monsters that will do battle with the gods.
Ships in Norse mythology (4 P) Pages in category "Mythological ships" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Thor Kicks Litr onto Baldr's Burning Ship, illustration by Emil Doepler (ca. 1905). In Norse mythology, Hringhorni (Old Norse "ship with a circle on the stem" [1]) is the name of the ship of the god Baldr, described as the "greatest of all ships".
"The third gift—an enormous hammer" (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith.. In Norse mythology, the Sons of Ivaldi (Norse: Ívaldasynir) are a group of dwarfs who fashion Skíðblaðnir, the flying ship of Freyr, Gungnir, the spear belonging to Odin, as well as the golden hair for Sif to replace the hair that Loki had cut off.
Gullinbursti , meaning "Gold Mane" or "Golden Bristles") is a boar in Norse mythology. When Loki had Sif 's hair, Freyr 's ship Skíðblaðnir , and Odin 's spear Gungnir fashioned by the Sons of Ivaldi , he bet his own head with Brokkr that his brother Eitri ( Sindri ) would not have been able to make items to match the quality of those ...
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 ...