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  2. Nordic art - Wikipedia

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    Danish art goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot.Art from modern Denmark forms part of the art of the Nordic Bronze Age, and then Norse and Viking art.

  3. Jörð - Wikipedia

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    Moder Jord (Mother Earth) by Stephan Sinding. Jörð (Old Norse: Jǫrð, lit. 'earth') is the personification of earth and a goddess in Norse mythology.She is the mother of the thunder god Thor and a sexual partner of Odin. [1]

  4. Viking art - Wikipedia

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    Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...

  5. Jötunn - Wikipedia

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    DR284 from the Hunnestad Monument, which has been interpreted as depicting the gýgr Hyrrokkin riding on a wolf with a snake as reins. [1]A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn / ˈ j ɔː t ʊ n /; [2] or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.

  6. Younger Futhark - Wikipedia

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    The j rune was rendered superfluous due to Old Norse sound changes, but was kept with the new sound value of a. The old z rune was kept (transliterated in the context of Old Norse as ʀ) but moved to the end of the rune row in the only change of letter ordering in Younger Futhark. The third ætt was reduced by four runes, losing the e, ŋ, o ...

  7. Norse mythology - Wikipedia

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    Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.

  8. Járnsaxa - Wikipedia

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    Járnsaxa (/ j ɑːr n ˈ s æ k s ə /; Old Norse: [ˈjɑːrnˌsɑksɑ], ("iron dagger") is a jötunn in Norse mythology. In Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda , she is portrayed as Thor 's lover and as the mother of Magni , a child with supernatural powers.

  9. Norse mythology in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Thrall's Tale (2006) by Judith Lindbergh is heavily influenced by Norse mythology and is partially told by Thorbjorg the Seeress, an Old Norse priestess of the Vinland Sagas. Runemarks by Joanne Harris (2007) is based on the Norse legends, and creates a post Ragnarok world in which the gods have been scattered and their powers diminished.

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