Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic...
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Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing...
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and Old Norse religion such as notations of time and space, cosmogony, personifications, anthropogeny, and eschatology. Like other aspects of Norse mythology...
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Asgard (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
other accounts that likely more accurately reflect its conception in Old Norse religion, it is depicted as not conforming to a naturalistic geographical position...
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Horses in Germanic paganism (redirect from Horses in Old Norse religion)
and the Blót in the Old Norse Sources and Ritual Depositions of Bones from Archaeological Sites". Myth, Materiality and Lived Religion: 303–328. Maraschi...
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Jötunn (redirect from Norse giants)
scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn /ˈjɔːtʊn/; or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, jötnar...
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pagan religion, typically used by those who hold to "folkish" or race-centric ideologies. Odinism or Odinist may also refer to: Old Norse religion Odinist:...
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archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas and Old Norse poetry. Throughout Scandinavia, there are many remaining tumuli in honour...
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Rudolf Simek (category Old Norse studies scholars)
notable works on Germanic religion and mythology (including Old Norse religion and mythology), Germanic peoples, Vikings, Old Norse literature, and the culture...
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The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age Scandinavia is an archaeological study of old Norse religion in Late Iron Age-Scandinavia. It was written...
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The Scandinavian clan or ætt/ätt (pronounced [ˈæːtː] in Old Norse) was a social group based on common descent, equivalent to a clan. In the absence of...
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Ragnarök (redirect from Ancient Norse eschatology)
In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (also Ragnarok; /ˈræɡnərɒk/ RAG-nə-rok or /ˈrɑːɡ-/ RAHG-; Old Norse: Ragnarǫk [ˈrɑɣnɑˌrɒk]) is a foretold series of impending...
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Seiðr (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
both the telling and the shaping of the future. Connected to the Old Norse religion, its origins are largely unknown, and its practice gradually declined...
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dialects: Old West Norse (Old West Nordic, often referred to as Old Norse), Old East Norse (Old East Nordic), and Old Gutnish. Old West Norse and Old East...
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Búri (category Pages with Old Norse IPA)
gods. An early ancestor of the Æsir gods, the principal pantheon in Old Norse religion. Búri was licked free from salty rime stones by the primeval cow Auðumbla...
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Hilda Ellis Davidson (category Old Norse studies scholars)
specialized in the interdisciplinary study of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse religion and folklore, on which she was the author of numerous influential...
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Valkyrie (redirect from Valkyrie (Norse mythology))
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (/ˈvælkɪri/ VAL-kirr-ee or /vælˈkɪəri/ val-KEER-ee; from Old Norse: valkyrja, lit. 'chooser of the slain') is one of a host...
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Germanic paganism (redirect from Germanic Religion and Mythology)
Roman era and those found in Norse paganism, as well as between Germanic religion and reconstructed Indo-European religion and post-conversion folklore...
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980, developed about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Old Sigtuna, which, according to Old Norse religion, was previously the home of the widely revered god...
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John Lindow (category Old Norse studies scholars)
Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California, Berkeley. He is a well known authority on Old Norse religion and literature. John...
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derived from "Helheim", a modern term for a world of the dead in Old Norse religion: Hel. The Helheim Glacier is located on the eastern side of the Greenland...
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paganism Old Norse religion Iberian religion Illyrian religion Iapydes religion Kushite religion Ligurian religion Lusitanian religion Lydian religion Nuragic...
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Heathenry (new religious movement) (redirect from Modern Norse religion)
Heidnische Front' and Old Norse Religion". In Andrén, Anders; Jennbert, Kristina; Raudvere, Catharina (eds.). Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives:...
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folk religions, such as animism, Korean shamanism, African traditions like the San religion, Native American religions, and Old Norse religion, as well...
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Ring (Old Norse: Sigurðr Hringr, in some sources merely called Hringr) according to legend was a king of the Swedes, being mentioned in many old Scandinavian...
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List of religious texts (category Religion-related lists)
The most important of these are: The Denkard (Middle Persian, 'Acts of Religion'), The Bundahishn, (Middle Persian, 'Primordial Creation') The Menog-i...
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Æsir (redirect from Norse gods)
Æsir (Old Norse; singular: áss) or ēse (Old English; singular: ōs) are gods in Germanic paganism. In Old Nordic religion and mythology, the precise meaning...
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Vikings (redirect from Norse Vikings)
Sweden. The Vikings spoke Old Norse and made inscriptions in runes. For most of the period, they followed the Old Norse religion, but later became Christians...
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Universe line of books from Marvel Comics, based on the god from Old Norse religion and mythology, Thor (Þórr). He is a revamped version of the original...
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