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  2. Norse mythology - Wikipedia

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    Also released as The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-025869-8. d'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar (1967). "d'Aulaire's Book of Norse Myths". New York, New York Review of Books. Munch, Peter Andreas (1927). Norse Mythology: Legends of Gods and Heroes, Scandinavian Classics. Trans.

  3. Viking (Norse mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Viking is made jarl by the king and Halfdan becomes the king's hersir. The two groups of sons are highly competitive against each other. In a brutal ball game, they beat and maim each other, breaking each other's arms. A son of Viking, near death, slays a son of Njorfe. Viking scolds this son and sends him to an island in Lake Werner.

  4. Norse Gods and Giants - Wikipedia

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    Norse Gods and Giants is a children's book written and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire and published by Doubleday in 1967. [1] It was reissued by Doubleday in 1986 as d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants [2] and by New York Review Books in 2005 as d'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths. [3] [4]

  5. Family trees of the Norse gods - Wikipedia

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    [53] [55] The rise to prominence of male, war-oriented gods such as Odin, relative to protective female gods with a closer association to fertility and watery sites, has been proposed to have taken place around 500 CE, coinciding with the development of an expansionist aristocratic military class in southern Scandinavia. [56]

  6. Odin - Wikipedia

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    Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...

  7. Æsir - Wikipedia

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    Æsir (Old Norse; singular: áss) or ēse (Old English; singular: ōs) are gods in Germanic paganism. In Old Nordic religion and mythology , the precise meaning of the term "Æsir" is debated, as it can refer to both the gods in general or specifically to one of the main families of gods, in contrast to the Vanir , with whom they waged war ...

  8. Category:Norse gods - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history ... This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... Odin (5 C, 49 P) T. Thor (4 C, 48 P) Pages in category ...

  9. Norse Mythology (book) - Wikipedia

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    P. Craig Russell provided the scripts, layouts and covers for each issue. Art and colors were from a variety of artists, including Mike Mignola, Jerry Ordway, and Dave Stewart. [8] [9] To mark the release of the first issue, a special edition cover by Bill Sienkiewicz was released along with a signed variant. [10] Variant covers are by David ...