enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Viking art - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_art

   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 ...

3. Odin - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

   Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...

4. Wyrd - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd

   Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny", or simply "unexpected". The cognate term to wyrd in Old Norse is urðr, with a similar meaning ...

5. Huginn and Muninn - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huginn_and_Muninn

   In Norse mythology, Huginn (Old Norse "thought" [1]) and Muninn (Old Norse "will" [2] or "desire/intention" [3]) are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin. Huginn and Muninn are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources: the Prose Edda and ...

6. Raven banner - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_banner

   Raven banner. The raven banner (Old Norse: hrafnsmerki [ˈhrɑvnsˌmerke]; Middle English: hravenlandeye) was a flag, possibly totemic in nature, flown by various Viking chieftains and other Scandinavian rulers during the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries. [citation needed]

7. Helm of Awe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helm_of_Awe

   Old Norse text [5] Bellows translation [6] "Inn fráni ormr, þú gerðir fræs mikla ok galzt harðan hug; heift at meiri verðr hölða sonum, at þann hjalm hafi." "Glittering worm, thy hissing was great, And hard didst show thy heart; But hatred more | have the sons of men For him who owns the helm."

8. Valkyrie - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie

   In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (/ ˈvælkɪri / VAL-kirr-ee or / vælˈkɪəri / val-KEER-ee; [1][2] from Old Norse: valkyrja, lit. 'chooser of the slain') is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin 's hall Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar ('single fighters' or 'once fighters'). [3]

9. Norse mythology - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology

   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, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology and stemming from Proto-Germanic folklore, Norse ...