Viking names

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Holmgang Viking duel in a circle Idun Njord Kjell Huginn, represents mind (thinking) Muninn, represents memory Sverri Scallagrim Ragnarok Valhalla Mimir; Named after the "Jotun" or troll that was the keeper of the fountain of knowledge that Odin, king of the Norse Gods, got his wisdom from. Tiw; Norse god of war (Tuesday), Wodans day, Thors day Jarl (Lord) Skirnir Skraelingar (barbarians) Hiallt the Norseman Megingjörð (power-belt) belt worn by the god Thor Mjölnir hammer Járngreipr iron gloves Vidar Víðarr Vithar, Vidarr,Vitharr (vengeance) Skulli Folki Husbjörn (huisbeer!) Gunnar Uffir Ylva (female) Gustav Eriksson Nils Wulfric Hrothgar Boromir Unferth Einar Gunnar Erick Dona Bjorn Aethril Mara Galen Kainen Jona Arn Olaf Finn

An old Icelandic legend tells of the Yule Cat, Jólakötturinn, a terrifying giant feline that eats children who don't wear new sweaters at Xmas.

+UVLFBERH+T (Viking zwaard)

Ingelrii Viking swords are characterised by their blade inscriptions, stylised as INGELRII, INGELRD or INGELRILT. They are somewhat younger than the better known Ulfberht. Other variations of the inscription have also been found: INGRLRIIMEFECIT and INGELRIH FECIT

Atgeir "mail-piercer" "hewing-spear" translated in English as "halberd"

Einherjar fighters

Sæhrímnir creature killed and eaten every night by the Æsir and einherjar. The cook of the gods, Andhrímnir,

Fenrir Fenrisúlfr (Fenris wolf), Hróðvitnir (fame-wolf), Vánagandr (monster of the river Ván

Geri, Freki both meaning "the ravenous" or "greedy one" are two wolves accompaning the god Odin

Huginn (thought), Muninn (memory or mind) are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the Odin.

Bragi god of poetry

Tanngnjóstr (teeth grinder), Tanngrisnir (teeth-barer, snarler) are the goats who pull the god Thor's chariot

Andhrímnir (sooty) Cook

Gylfaginning book of Edda

Heiðrún goat

Vígríðr or Óskópnir battlefield

Gungnir (swaying one) spear of Odin

In Norse mythology, Wayland the Smith Old Norse: Völundr, Velentr, lit. "battle-brave" is a legendary master blacksmith. In Old Norse sources, Völundr appears in Völundarkviða, a poem in the Poetic Edda, and in Þiðrekssaga, and his legend is also depicted on the Ardre image stone VIII. According to Völundarkviða, the king of the Lapps had three sons: Wayland and his two brothers Egil and Slagfiðr. In one version of the myth, the three brothers lived with three Valkyries: Ölrún, Hervör alvitr and Hlaðguðr svanhvít. After nine years, the Valkyries left their lovers. Egil and Slagfiðr followed, never to return. In another version, Wayland married the swan maiden Hervör, and they had a son, Heime, but Hervör later left Wayland. In both versions, his love left him with a ring. In the former myth, he forged seven hundred duplicates of this ring. Wayland (Völund) made the magic sword Gram (also named Balmung and Nothung) and the magic ring that Thorsten retrieved.

Swords described as having been forged by Wayland

  • Almace, the sword of Archbishop Turpin.
  • Curtana, the sword of Ogier the Dane
  • Durandal, the sword of Roland (N.B. in Orlando Innamorato Durandal is said to have been originally the sword of Hector of Troy.)
  • Mimung, which he forged to fight the rival smith Amilias, according to Thidrekssaga, and later came into the possession of Landri or Landres, nephew of Charlemagne.
  • Gram, the sword of Sigmund, which would be destroyed by Odin, and is later reforged by Regin and used by Sigmund's son Sigurd to slay the dragon Fafnir, according to the Völsunga saga.
  • Adylok / Hatheloke, the sword of Torrent of Portyngale, according to Torrent of Portyngale.
  • Caliburn, in Mary Stewart's Arthurian Legend, is the sword of Macsen, Merlin, and Arthur.
  • Merveilleuse, the hero's sword in the Chanson de Doon de Mayence was forged by "Un ouvrier de Galan", a journeyman of Wayland's.
  • The unnamed sword of the hero in the Chanson de Gui de Nanteuil.
  • The unnamed sword of Huon of Bordeaux, according to Lord Berners.
  • An unnamed sword whose history is related by Rudyard Kipling in Puck of Pook's Hill.
  • Albion, sword of Robin Hood, and its six partners in Robin of Sherwood.

In Norse mythology, Andvari (Old Norse "careful one"[1]) is a dwarf who lives underneath a waterfall and has the power to change himself into a fish at will. Andvari had a magical ring Andvaranaut, which helped him become wealthy. Using a net provided by Ran, Loki catches him as a pike and forces him to give up his gold and Andvaranaut. Andvari cursed the stolen gold which would destroy anyone who possessed it. After the deaths of Brynhild and Sigurd, Gunnar left Andvari's gold in a cave. Years later, Andvari discovered the cave and his lost gold, although his ring was lost forever. In Richard Wagner's cycle of music dramas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, the character Alberich is based in some part on Andvari, but more on the Frankish sorcerer Alberich. In the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, Alberich is a dwarf, who guards the treasure of the Nibelungen, but is overcome by Siegfried. News of the gold robbery and ring of power incited gods and giants alike to action. The giants Fafner and Fasolt demanded the ring in payment for building Valhalla, and carried off Freyja as a hostage. In the border, the gods, Odin, Frigg, Loki, Freyr, and Thor all search despairingly for the hidden treasure. In Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, Alberich is the chief of the Nibelungen race of dwarfs and the main antagonist driving events. He gains the power to forge the ring after renouncing love. His brother, the smith Mime, creates the Tarnhelm for Alberich. Hagen, the murderer of the hero [Siegfried], is the son of Alberich by Grimhilde, a human woman. Wagner's Alberich is a composite character, mostly based on Alberich from the Nibelungenlied, but also on Andvari from Norse mythology. He has been widely described, most notably by Theodor Adorno, as a negative Jewish stereotype, with his race expressed through "distorted" music and "muttering" speech;[1][2][3] other critics, however, disagree with this assessment.[4]

In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse the "Lady") is a goddess associated with love, sexuality, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi. Along with her brother Freyr (Old Norse the "Lord"), her father Njörðr, and her mother (Njörðr's sister, unnamed in sources), she is a member of the Vanir. Stemming from Old Norse Freyja, modern forms of the name include Freya, Frejya, Freyia, Frøya, Frøjya, Freia, and Freja. Freyja rules over her heavenly afterlife field Fólkvangr and there receives half of those that die in battle, whereas the other half go to the god Odin's hall, Valhalla. Within Fólkvangr is her hall, Sessrúmnir. Freyja assists other deities by allowing them to use her feathered cloak, is invoked in matters of fertility and love, and is frequently sought after by powerful jötnar who wish to make her their wife. Freyja's husband, the god Óðr, is frequently absent. She cries tears of red gold for him, and searches for him under assumed names. Freyja has numerous names, including Gefn, Hörn, Mardöll, Sýr, Valfreyja, and Vanadís. From <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja>

According to Norse mythology, the god of thunder, Thor, has a chariot that is pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjöstr

The Danevirke is system of large defensive earthworks and walls that stretches across the neck of the Cimbrian peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The defences run for 30km (19 miles), starting at the Viking trading settlement of Hedeby near Schleswig on the Baltic Sea coast in the east, to the marshes around Hollingstedt on the River Trene, with a height varying between 3.6 and 6 metres (12 and 20 ft). According to written sources, work on the Danevirke was started by the Danish King Gudfred in 808AD in fear of an invasion by the Franks. He supposedly built the wall to defend his kingdom, creating a physical barrier separating the Jutland peninsula from the northern extent of the Frankish empire. This has since been contradicted by archaeological evidence that suggests that they were first constructed by Danes during the Nordic Iron Age at some point before 500AD and saw later additions during Denmark’s Viking Age. Excavations in 1969–75 established, with the help of dendrochronology, that the main structure of the Danevirke was been built in multiple phases between AD 737 and 968 by notable Danish Kings such as Angantyr, Siegfried, Guðfrið and Harald Bluetooth. The 12th century King, Valdemar the Great strengthened sections of the Danevirke further by adding a 7-m high wall of stones in mortar on a granite boulder base, propped up with buttresses and covered with tiles (these fortified sections consequently became known in Danish as Valdemarsmuren or Valdemar’s wall).

Heimdallr, god of sight in Norse mythology, was the guardian of Asgard. His name sometimes also appears as Heimdall, and he is known for his ability to see the end of days before the other gods. In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr. Heimdallr is attested as possessing foreknowledge, keen eyesight and hearing, and keeps watch for invaders and the onset of Ragnarök while drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjörg. Heimdallr is additionally referred to as Rig, Hallinskiði, Gullintanni, and Vindlér or Vindhlér.

Valkyries names

  • Brynhild
  • Brynhildr (Bernie of Battle or Mail-coat of Battle)
  • Friagabi (Giver of Freedom)
  • Gefn (The Giving)
  • Geirahöd (Spear of Battle)
  • Geironul
  • Geirskogul
  • Göll (Loud Cry-Battle Cry)
  • Göndul (Magic Wand or Enchanted Stave or She-Were-Wolf)
  • Gunn
  • Gunnr (Battle)
  • Gunwar (Gunnvör in Old Norse, Gunnora in Old English, War-Oath)
  • Guth
  • Hede (Heiõr in Old Norse)
  • Heath (often found as a witch-name & related to Heathen)
  • Herfjötur (War-Fetter)
  • Hervör (Warder of the Host)
  • Hild (Battle)
  • Hildr (Battle)
  • Hirst (The Shaker)
  • Hlathguth (Necklace-Adorned Warrior-Maiden)
  • Hlökk (Noise, Din of Battle)
  • Hörn (Lady of Flax)
  • Kára
  • Ladgerda
  • Mist (The Mist or The Fog)
  • Olrun (One Knowing Ale Rune)
  • Prungva (She Who Pines for Lost Love)
  • Prúõr (Power)
  • Randgriõr (Shield of Peace)
  • Randgrith
  • Ráõgriõr (Counsel of Peace or God's Peace)
  • Reginleif (Heritage of the Gods)
  • Róta ( She Who causes Turmoil)
  • Sigrdrifa (Victory Blizzard)
  • Sigrún (Victory Rune)
  • Sýr (The Sow, The Protector)
  • Skeggjöld (Wearing a War Axe)
  • Skjálf (Shield, She Who Protects)
  • Skögul (Battle or Rager)
  • Skuld (She Who is Becoming-Necessity)
  • Sváva
  • Swanhwid (Svanvit in Old Norse, Swan-White)
  • Vanadis (Goddess of Van
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