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Nótt rides her horse in this 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo.. In Norse mythology, Nótt (Old Norse: , "night" [1]) is personification of the night.In both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century, Nótt is listed as the daughter of a figure by the name of Nörvi (with variant spellings) and is ...
Like other Norse goddesses, her name was applied widely in Scandinavia to, for example, "sweetmeats or to stout carthorses". [81] Vanadís, one of Freyja's names, is the source of the name of the chemical element vanadium, so named because of its many colored compounds. [82]
The name Iðunn appears as a personal name in several historical sources and the Landnámabók records that it has been in use in Iceland as a personal name since the pagan period (10th century). Landnámabók records two incidents of women by the name of Iðunn ; Iðunn Arnardóttir, the daughter of an early settler, and Iðunn Molda ...
Sól (Old Norse: , "Sun") [1] or Sunna (Old High German, and existing as an Old Norse and Icelandic synonym: see Wiktionary sunna, "Sun") is the Sun personified in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations, written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt.
The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan).
Viking names carry with them the weight of history. ... In mythology, Loki’s daughter and ruler of the underworld, which is also called Hel. 162. Helga — "Blessed one." 163. Hilda — "Battle ...
The Daughters of Ægir and Rán as depicted in a grayscale version of a painting by Hans Dahl (1849-1937) In Norse mythology, the goddess Rán and the jötunn Ægir both personify the sea, and together they have nine daughters who personify waves. Each daughter's name reflects poetic terms for waves.
Ægir may also be the father of the beautiful jötunn Gerðr, wife of the god Freyr, or these may be two separate figures who share the same name (see below and Gymir (father of Gerðr)). One of Ægir's names, Hlér, is the namesake of the island Læsø (Old Norse Hlésey 'Hlér's island') and perhaps also Lejre in Denmark. Scholars have long ...