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The world known to the Norse. The Norse people traveled abroad as Vikings and Varangians. As such, they often named the locations and peoples they visited with Old Norse words unrelated to the local endonyms. Some of these names have been acquired from sagas, runestones or Byzantine chronicles.
The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál provide lists of valkyrie names. Other valkyrie names appear solely outside these lists, such as Sigrún (who is attested in the poems Helgakviða Hundingsbana I and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II ).
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An Old English cognate of Fornjótr may appear in a plant-name attested in the Cleopatra Glossary (as forneotes folm) and in Bald's Leechbook as fornetes folm. Folm means 'hand, palm', and, lacking a better explanation, scholars have suggested that fornetes is an Old English form of the name Fornjótr , such that the plant's name meant 'Fornet ...
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 dís appears in several place names in Norway and Sweden. [1] Moreover, it was a common element in the names of girls, as evidenced on runestones, [32] and it still is in Iceland. The word appears as a first element in Old High German female given names such as Itispuruc and Itislant.
The Germanic god Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is referred to by many names in Old Norse poetry and literature.Some of the names come from the Prose Edda list Nafnaþulur, and are not attested elsewhere, while other names are well attested throughout the sources of Norse mythology.