John Frederick Lindow (born July 23, 1946) is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California...

Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow...

the rå and näck, who are attested as "solitary beings". According to John Lindow, what sets them apart is that they are not Christian, and those who encounter...

directly describe a fundamental belief in cyclic time. According to scholar John Lindow, "the cosmos might be formed and reformed on multiple occasions by the...

"drill-tooth" (Jesse Byock, Andy Orchard, Rudolf Simek) or "bore-tooth" (John Lindow). In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, the god Odin (disguised as Grímnir)...

and for that reason she was called Nál [Needle]." According to scholar John Lindow, however, "the late date of the text makes this piece of information...

John Lindow Calderwood CBE (22 January 1888 – 7 February 1960) was an English solicitor, a British Army officer and an independent politician in Wiltshire...

svartálfr and dwarf may simply be synonyms for the same concept. Scholar John Lindow comments that whether the dökkálfar and the svartálfar were considered...

between worlds. Brepols. pp. 1273–1302. Lindow, John (2020a). "Written Sources". In Schjødt, Jens Peter; Lindow, John; A., Anders (eds.). The Pre-Christian...

compounds (byggja sifjar means "to marry"). Using this etymology, scholar John Lindow gives the meanings "in-law-relationship", scholar Andy Orchard provides...

and insatiable", including having a voracious appetite (”gluttonous”). John Lindow interprets both Old Norse names as nominalized adjectives. Bruce Lincoln...

potential marriage or sexual union between Máni and a female jötunn. John Lindow states that if a story about Máni having such a relationship with a female...

dwarfs under another name, in the opinion of a number of scholars such as John Lindow. The Prose Edda also uniquely mentions the svartálfar ('black elves')...

Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, ed. by Carl Lindahl, John McNamara and John Lindow, 2 vols (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000), II 824–32 (pp....

and balance of the cosmos, in which Jörmungandr played a vital role. John Lindow draws a parallel between Jörmungandr's biting of its own tail and the...

discovered at Lindow Moss Lindow Man, preserved bog body of a man discovered at Lindow Moss Al Lindow (1919–1989), American football player John Lindow (born...

heimum: Studies in Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F. Lindow, ed. by Merrill Kaplan and Timothy R. Tangherlini, Wildcat Canyon Advanced...

3-520-36803-X, S. 64 entscheidet sich nicht für eine von beiden Möglichkeiten – John Lindow: Handbook of Norse Mythology. USA 2001, ISBN 1-57607-217-7, S. 90 sagt...

composed in the Eddaic fornyrðislag metre. Old Norse poetry Norse mythology John Lindow (2002). Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs...

John Lindow says that if the Fólk- element of Fólkvangr is to be understood as "army", then Fólkvangr appears as an alternative to Valhalla. Lindow adds...

Solnitse. Regarding Sól's attested personifications in Norse mythology, John Lindow states that "even kennings like 'hall of the sun' for sky may not suggest...

a thunder-storm is over) the rainbow-bridge becomes hot in the sun." John Lindow points to a parallel between Bifröst, which he notes is "a bridge between...

just like the proto-ancestor Tuisto ... ". According to folklorist John Lindow, "Jörd must have been a giantess in the beginning. If so, Odin’s marriage...

the elf Luvis respectively. Alexiares and Anicetus Simek 1987. Lindow 2001. Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals...

"woman". Regarding the information given about Sjöfn in Gylfaginning, John Lindow says that the word sjafni does indeed appear listed in the þulur as a...

told in Indo-European 6,000 years ago in the Bronze Age. Folklorist John Lindow, however, notes that a word for "smith" may not have existed in Indo-European...

is subsequently rescued by the god Thor after she has been abducted. John Lindow suggests that, on its face the text depicts a mythological model for...

Simek theorizes. Hyperion (Titan) World Mill Simek (2007:222). Lindow (2001:233). Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals...

(1999). The Poetic Edda. Oxford World's Classics ISBN 0-19-283946-2 Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs...

consider that the valkyries also have the ability to waken the dead. John Lindow is skeptical of there having been a belief in Eir as a goddess, stating...