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  2. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    Hrungnir's slayer Hrungnir was a giant whose head was smashed by a blow from Mjollnir. N: Lokasenna: Odin: Lord of the gallows See the separate page List of names of Odin for more Odin kennings. N: Odin: Hanged god Odin hung on the Tree of Knowledge for nine days in order to gain wisdom. N: person voice-bearer reordberend: OE: Dream of the Rood ...

  3. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  4. Hrungnir - Wikipedia

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    I have heard that the watcher [Hrungnir] of the dark bone [rock] of the land [sea] of Haki’s carriages [ships] moved violently in opposition when he saw his warlike slayer. Swiftly flew the pale ring-ice [shield] beneath the soles of the rock-guarder [giant]. The bonds [gods] caused this, the ladies of the fray [valkyries] wished it.

  5. Runic magic - Wikipedia

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    The first book on runic divination, written by Ralph Blum in 1982, led to the development of sets of runes designed for use in several such systems of fortune telling, in which the runes are typically incised in clay, stone tiles, crystals, resin, glass, or polished stones, then either selected one-by-one from a closed bag or thrown down at ...

  6. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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    Draupnir, a golden arm ring possessed by Odin that is a source of endless wealth. (Norse mythology) Ring of Dispel, a ring given to Sir Lancelot by the Lady of the Lake which could dispel any enchantment. In Le Chevalier de la Charrette it is given to him by a fairy instead. He used the ring to cross the Sword Bridge.

  7. Gotland Runic Inscription 181 - Wikipedia

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    Because the weapon of Odin was the spear Gungnir, that of Thor the hammer Mjöllnir, and Freyr is identified with farming, the figures have been identified as these three gods. [2] They are depicted wearing typical Viking Age clothing, including a cloak known as a hekla and a tasseled conical cap called a skott-húfa . [ 3 ]

  8. Talisman - Wikipedia

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    However, use of verses of the Qur'an in slips of parchment rolled inside talismanic objects has been common throughout the Muslim World. For example, Muslim Ibn al-hajjaj instructed military commanders to inscribe Quran 54:46 on a cloth with rosewater, musk, and amber when Libra is rising and in the hour of the sun, and to carry it to the ...

  9. Hlidskjalf - Wikipedia

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    In Grímnismál, Odin and Frigg are both sitting in Hliðskjálf when they see their foster sons Agnarr and Geirröðr, one living in a cave with a giantess and the other a king. Frigg then made the accusation to her husband that Geirröðr was miserly and inhospitable toward guests, so after wagering with one another over the veracity of the ...