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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( March 2016 ) Norse mythology includes a diverse array of people, places, creatures, and other mythical elements.
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a burning, tingling or scalding sensation in the mouth, lasting for at least four to six months, with no underlying known dental or medical cause. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] No related signs of disease are found in the mouth. [ 3 ]
Old Norse: Brandey: The word brandr may refer to "a stock in the front of a ship" and appears in the heroic poem Helgakvíða Hundingsbana I, it has been suggested to correspond to the island Brännholmen in Östergötland. [33] A location where the hero has assembled his fleet. [32] Brávellir, Bråviken: Old Norse: Brávellir, Old Norse: Brávík
The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland. Straumsey ("Current-isle") lies at the mouth of Straumfjörð. Suðreyjar "Southern islands". Hebrides. Suðrvegr "South way", Germany. [3 ...
There are hundreds of such words, and the list below does not aim at completeness. To be distinguished from loan words which date back to the Old English period are modern Old Norse loans originating in the context of Old Norse philology, such as kenning (1871), [a] and loans from modern Icelandic (such as geyser, 1781).
Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland). [1] In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people, the proto-Inuit group with
Gullveig (Old Norse: [ˈɡulːˌwɛiɣ]) is a female figure in Norse mythology associated with the legendary conflict between the Æsir and Vanir. In the poem Völuspá, she came to the hall of Odin where she is speared by the Æsir, burnt three times, and yet thrice reborn.
In Norse mythology, four stags or harts (male red deer) eat among the branches of the world tree Yggdrasill. According to the Poetic Edda, the stags crane their necks upward to chomp at the branches. The morning dew gathers in their horns and forms the rivers of the world. Their names are given as Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór. An ...