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Name Name meaning Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Eggthér: blade servant, eagle: None attested: None attested: Völuspá: Elldridr: Vilhjalms saga sjóðs: Eimgeitir: fire goat, smoke goat: None attested: None attested: Nafnaþulur: Eistla 'the stormy one', 'the glowing one' None attested
Sigbjørn (Danish, Faroese, Norwegian) or Sigbjörn (Icelandic, Swedish) is a Nordic male given name, meaning Victory-bear (abbreviation of "Segerbjörn") and dating back to the Viking Age (Old Norse: Sigbiǫrn). A female form exist as Sigurbirna (Victory-bearess).
Odin the Wanderer (the meaning of his name Gangleri); illustration by Georg von Rosen, 1886. Odin (Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology. The god is referred to by numerous names and kenningar, particularly in the Old Norse record.
The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál provide lists of valkyrie names. Other valkyrie names appear solely outside these lists, such as Sigrún (who is attested in the poems Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II).
Bjorn, Bjorne (English, Dutch), Björn (Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, and German), Bjørn (Danish, Faroese and Norwegian), Beorn (Old English) or, rarely, Bjôrn, Biorn, or Latinized Biornus, Brum (Portuguese), is a Scandinavian male given name, or less often a surname. The name means "bear" (the animal).
It is proposed by some authors that the berserkers drew their power from the bear and were devoted to the bear cult, which was once widespread across the northern hemisphere. [ 6 ] [ 13 ] The berserkers maintained their religious observances despite their fighting prowess, as the Svarfdæla saga tells of a challenge to single-combat that was ...
Female supernatural figures in Norse mythology (5 C, 11 P) P. People in Norse mythology (3 C, 9 P) S. Servants in Norse mythology (6 P) Sons of Odin (2 C, 16 P)
Adils; Alaric and Eric; Arngrim; Ask and Embla; Aun; Berserkers; Bödvar Bjarki; Dag the Wise; Domalde; Domar; Dyggve; Egil One-Hand; Fafnir; Fjölnir; Gudrun; Harald ...