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  2. Gullveig - Wikipedia

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    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 ( Hár ) where she is speared by the Æsir , burnt three times, and yet thrice reborn.

  3. Rebirth in Germanic paganism - Wikipedia

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    Surviving texts indicate that there was a belief in rebirth in Germanic paganism. Examples occur in eddic poetry and sagas , potentially associated with naming and/or through the family line. Scholars have discussed the implications of these attestations and proposed theories regarding belief in reincarnation among the Germanic peoples prior to ...

  4. List of English words of Old Norse origin - Wikipedia

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    perhaps from Old French bruschet, with identical sense of the English word, or from Old Norse brjosk "gristle, cartilage" (related to brjost "breast") or Danish bryske [37] brunt Likely from Old Norse brundr (="sexual heat") or bruna =("to advance like wildfire") [38] bulk bulki [39] bull boli [40] bump Perhaps from Scandinavian, probably ...

  5. Völuspá - Wikipedia

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    Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá, or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda.It dates back to the tenth century and tells the story from Norse Mythology of the creation of the world, its coming end, and its subsequent rebirth that is related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin.

  6. Edda - Wikipedia

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    Along with the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most expansive source on Norse mythology. The first part of the Codex Regius preserves poems that narrate the creation and foretold destruction and rebirth of the Old Norse mythological world as well as individual myths about gods concerning Norse deities.

  7. Old Norse religion - Wikipedia

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    The Old Norse word brúðhlaup has cognates in many other Germanic languages and means "bride run"; it has been suggested that this indicates a tradition of bride-stealing, but other scholars including Jan de Vries interpreted it as indicating a rite of passage conveying the bride from her birth family to that of her new husband. [215]

  8. Norse rituals - Wikipedia

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    Norse religious worship is the traditional religious ... Old place names containing the word sal may thus mean that a ... one for rebirth at mid-winter and one for ...

  9. List of Old Norse exonyms - Wikipedia

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    Many historians assume the terms beorm and bjarm to derive from the Uralic word perm, which refers to "travelling merchants" and represents the Old Permic culture. [4] Bjarneyjar "Bear islands". Possibly Disko Island off Greenland. [5] blakumen or blökumenn Romanians or Cumans. Blokumannaland may be the lands south of the Lower Danube. Bót