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Face of the Heysham hogback depicting four figures with upraised arms, which have been interpreted as Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri holding up the sky [1]. In Nordic mythology, Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri (Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈɔustre, ˈwestre, ˈnorðre, ˈsuðre]) [citation needed]; are four dwarfs who hold up the sky after it was made by the gods from the skull of the ...
Völuspá (37) mentions "a hall of gods, of the lineage of Sindri" [2] located northward, in Niðavellir.There are several reasons to think that Sindri is a dwarf: [3] his name is related with forging and the hall is made of gold (dwarves are said to be skillful smiths), the location of the hall is Niðavellir, which possibly means "dark fields" (dwarves live away from the sunlight).
The Prose and Poetic Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of dwarfs.While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are included here for the purpose of completeness.
The modern English noun dwarf descends from Old English: dweorg. It has a variety of cognates in other Germanic languages, including Old Norse dvergr, Old Frisian dwerch, Middle Dutch dwerch, Middle Low German dwerch, and Old High German twerg. [1] [2] The common Proto-Germanic form is generally reconstructed as *dwergaz.
In the Old Norse religion, Eitri (Old Norse: ; or Sindri) is a dwarf and the brother of Brokkr. [ 1 ] According to Skáldskaparmál , when Loki had Sif 's hair, Freyr 's ship Skidbladnir and Odin 's spear Gungnir fashioned by the Sons of Ivaldi , he bet his own head with Brokkr that Eitri would not have been able to make items that matched the ...
He noted that dwarves control the winds (cf. Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri, the dwarves of the cardinal points), and that two of the stag names, Dáinn and Dvalinn, are also dwarf names as well. [17] Many scholars, following Sophus Bugge, believe that stanzas 33 and 34 of Grímnismál are of a later origin than those surrounding them.
It's interesting to note that the original editor for Lord of the Rings actually "corrected" Tolkien's spelling of "dwarves" to "dwarfs." Tolkien stated that the true plural of dwarf is dwarrows ...
Gandalf (Old Norse: Gandálfr [ˈɡɑndˌɑːlvz̠]) is a Dvergr (Norse dwarf) in Norse mythology, appearing in the so-called 'Tally of the Dwarves' within the poem Völuspá from the Poetic Edda, [1] as well as in the Prose Edda.