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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 ).
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.
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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 ...
The thula (/ ˈ θ uː l ə /; pl. thulas, from Old Norse: þula pl. þulur) is an ancient poetic genre in the Germanic literatures. Thulas are metrical name-lists or lists [1] of poetic synonyms compiled, mainly, for oral recitation. The main function of thulas is thought to be mnemonic.
Name Name meaning Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Ægir "Sea", Awe, Holy (a Norse appellation for Hagia Sofia is Ægir Sif) Hlér, Gymir, Mæri simbli sumbls. Father: Fornjótr Brothers: Logi, Kári Wife: Rán Daughters: Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dröfn (Bára), Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, Uðr
The term Shield-maiden is a calque of the Old Norse: skjaldmær. Since Old Norse has no word that directly translates to warrior, but rather drengr, rekkr and seggr can all refer to male warrior and bragnar can mean warriors, it is problematic to say that the term meant female warrior to Old Norse speakers. Judith Jesch researched the word in ...