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The Eyrarland Statue, typically interpreted as depicting Thor.Thor's riding across the sky is likely reflected in the modern Swedish word for "thunderstorm" - Swedish: åska, deriving from an earlier form meaning "the driving of the áss".
The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange. The trickster is a common stock character in folklore and popular culture. A clever, mischievous person or creature, the trickster achieves goals through the use of trickery. A trickster may trick others simply for amusement or for survival in a ...
Hœnir in an illustration from a 17th-century Icelandic manuscript. In Norse mythology, Hœnir (also Hǿnir; modern Icelandic Hænir, modern Swedish Höner) is one of the Æsir.
In 1959, Jan de Vries theorized that Loki is a typical example of a trickster figure. In 1961, by way of excluding all non-Scandinavian mythological parallels in her analysis, Anna Birgitta Rooth concluded that Loki was originally a spider. Anne Holtsmark, writing in 1962, concluded that no conclusion could be made about Loki. [62]
Depiction of Sleipnir in a detail on the Tjängvide image stone.. In Norse mythology, Sleipnir / ˈ s l eɪ p n ɪər / (Old Norse: "slippy" [1] or "the slipper" [2]) is an eight-legged horse ridden by Odin.
"Týr" by Lorenz Frølich, 1895. Týr (/ t ɪər /; [1] Old Norse: Týr, pronounced) is a god in Germanic mythology and member of the Æsir.In Norse mythology, which provides most of the surviving narratives about gods among the Germanic peoples, Týr sacrifices his right hand to the monstrous wolf Fenrir, who bites it off when he realizes the gods have bound him.
Gullveig is solely attested in a stanza of Völuspá (Prophecy of the Völva) immediately preceding the story of the Æsir–Vanir War. [4] A völva (seeress) recalls that Gullveig was pierced by spears before being burnt three times in the hall of Hárr (one of Odin's names), and yet was three times reborn.
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