Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland ...Norrœna Society, 1906 |
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abode according already appears archer artists Asa-god Asas Asgard Balder called Christian connection daughter dwarf dwelling Ebbo Egil Egil's Elivagar epithet Erik father Fjölsvin Fjölsvinnsmal Frey Frey's Freyja Fridlevus Gandvik Geirrod giant giantess Gjuke Gjukungs goddess gods Groa guise Gylfaginning Hakon Halfdan hall hand Haustlaung heathen Heimdal's Hengest Hermod hero heroic saga Hist Hoder Hotherus Hvergelmer Ide's identical Idun Ivalde sons Ivalde's sons Jotunheim journey king latter Loke Loke's Longobardians Loptr lower world Menglad mentioned Mimer's moon-god mother mountain myth concerning Nanna Nifelheim Niflung Njord Norse Odin Odin's ódr Orentel Orvandel Orvandel-Egil Otharus paraphrases poem powers of frost Ragnarok regard Regin revenge Rogner Saxo Saxo's setr Skade skalds skees Skirner Slagfin slain smith song star-hero strophe Svip Svipdag swan-maids sword of victory synonym Syritha Teutonic mythology Thjalfe Thjasse Thjasse's Thor Thor's Thorsdrapa tion treasures Vellekla Vilkinasaga Volund Volundarkvida Völuspa weapon wife Wolfdales word world-tree Younger Edda
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768 ページ - And we have the word of prophecy made more sure ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts...
768 ページ - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
901 ページ - Greek myths in the form in which they have been handed down to us, the Orion myth is without any organic connection with any epic whole.
1030 ページ - ... on the other side of this sea is the Utgard (out-yard), the abode of the giants ; the Midgard is defended by the yard or burgh Asgard (the burgh of the gods) lying in the middle (the heaven being conceived as rising above the earth).
1017 ページ - Sturleson, and contains old mythological lore and the old artificial rules for verse-making. The ancients applied the name Edda only to this work of Snorre. The Elder Edda was never so called. And it is also uncertain whether Snorre himself knew his work by the name of Edda. In the Rigsmal (Lay of Rig) Edda is the progenitrix of the race of thralls.
1019 ページ - FIMBULVETR [vetr, winter]. The great and awful winter of three years' duration preceding the end of the world. Fimbul-winter.
1018 ページ - The only (ein) or great champions ; the heroes who have fallen in battle and been admitted into Valhal. Einherje.
738 ページ - ... stork, that stalks along in the mud, lord of the marish — and it is now easy to see that this bird is the Creator walking in Chaos, brooding over the primitive mish-mash or tohu-bohu, and finally hatching the egg of the world. Hohni is also, one would fancy, to be identified with Heimdal the ivalker, who is also a creatorGod, who sleeps more lightly than a bird, who is also the '•fair Anse* and the ' whitest of the Anses} the ' waker of the gods,' a celestial chanticleer as it were.
1030 ページ - Mimer, the well of wisdom, at which Odin pawned his eye for wisdom ; a myth which is explained as symbolical of the heavenly vault with its single eye, the sun, setting in the sea.
1024 ページ - He was the heavenly watchman in the old mythology, answering to St. Peter in the medieval. According to the Lay of Rig (Heimdal), he was the father and founder of the different classes of men, nobles, churls and thralls. He has a horn called Gjallar-horn, which he blows at Ragnarok.