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Halfdan the Old (Old Norse: Hálfdanr gamli and Hálfdanr inn gamli) was an ancient, legendary king from whom descended many of the most notable lineages of legend. A second Halfdan the Old is the purported great-grandfather of Ragnvald Eysteinsson .
Bölþorn (also Bölþor; Old Norse: Bǫlþorn [ˈbɔlˌθorn], "Evil-thorn") is a jötunn in Norse mythology, and the father (or grandfather) of Bestla, herself the mother of Odin, Vili and Vé. [ 1 ]
"Rig in Great-grandfather's Cottage" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Rígsþula or Rígsmál (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Ríg') [1] is an Eddic poem, preserved in the manuscript (AM 242 fol, the Codex Wormianus), in which a Norse god named Ríg or Rígr, described as "old and wise, mighty and strong", fathers the social classes of mankind.
In Norse mythology, Borr or Burr [1] (Old Norse: 'borer' [2] sometimes anglicized Bor, Bör or Bur) was the son of Búri. Borr was the husband of Bestla and the father of Odin , Vili and Vé . Borr receives mention in a poem in the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, and in the Prose Edda , composed in ...
In Norse mythology, Búri (Old Norse: ) is a god and 'producer, father' of all other gods. [1] An early ancestor of the Æsir gods, the principal pantheon in Old Norse religion. Búri was licked free from salty rime stones by the primeval cow Auðumbla over the course of three days.
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic [1] or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate ...
Snorri is an Old Norse name derived from the word snerra, meaning "a fight." Þorfinnsson is a patronymic, meaning "son of Þorfinnr", (see Icelandic naming conventions). Snorri was named for his great-grandfather, Snorri Þórðarson, [4] or after Snorri Þorbrandsson who was not a kinsman but a participant in Karlsefni's expedition [5]
The Old Norse genealogy work Hversu Noregr byggdist tells that Hróarr had a son named Valdar, the father of Harald the Old, the father of Halfdan the Valiant, the father of Ivar Vidfamne, who was the maternal grandfather of Harald Wartooth.