prevent upsetting landvættir: Eyrbyggja saga depicts human waste is depicted as scaring elves, identified by some scholars as landvættir. In this account...

national arms to feature four supporters: the four protectors of Iceland (landvættir) as described in Heimskringla, standing on a block of columnar basalt...

tympanums of the four outermost windows on the first floor represent the four landvættir of Iceland: a dragon, a vulture, a giant and a bull, momentarily appeased...

have its own personality. Some of these are known as "land spirits" (landvættir) and inhabit different aspects of the landscape, living alongside humans...

locorum, primarily those of the River Thames and its tributaries. Jinn Kami Landvættir Seonangshin, Korean equivalent Shekhinah Spirit house Tomte Tuatha Dé...

or to a lesser extent, the guardian angel. Fylgja Hamingja Landdisir Landvættir Vættir In Hinduism, personal tutelary deities are known as ishta-devata...

ghosts of twelve knights that died in the Battle of Ålleberg in 1389 Landvættir Myling, a child ghost Slavic folklore Baba Yaga Countess Báthory allegedly...

carving before coming in sight of land because it would frighten the landvættir. Stave churches are sometimes decorated by carved dragon heads which has...

second colours; their crest features stylized imagery of Iceland's four landvættir (guardian spirits) in local folklore: a giant, a dragon, a bull, and an...

(United Kingdom) Cultural landscape Cultural region Deep map Genius loci Landvættir Nature writing Parochialism Psychogeography Topophilia A. Akkerman and...

Shapeshifting, female water spirit Lampades (Greek) – Underworld nymph Landvættir (Norse) – Nature spirits Langmeidong (Meitei mythology) – Semi human,...

Kobold Lares (Roman) Satyr (Greek) Sprite Tomte (Swedish) Vættir and Landvættir (Germanic) "Tavallista taikuutta" (PDF) (in Finnish). Archived from the...

the fate of newborns. It is uncertain whether they were worshipped. The landvættir, spirits of the land, were thought to inhabit certain rocks, waterfalls...

states that no one dared live where Hjörleif had settled for fear of the landvættir. The holding of blót and associated feasts were an opportunity for rulers...

southwestern corner of the country, including the capital at Reykjavík. Landvættir Regions of Iceland Counties of Iceland Municipalities of Iceland Constituencies...

or Ásatrú, "truth of the gods (the Ases)". The Icelanders worshipped landvættir, local land spirits, and the gods of the common northern Germanic tradition...

dedicated on 22 April 2010 with a ceremony that paid tribute to the local landvættir and several gods. The design allows the building to be expanded in the...

mountains, waterfalls, rocks, and trees; these may have been to the landvættir as well as, or rather than, the gods. There is no mention of worship of...

dwarves (who "are the dead"), elves (alves), trölls ("gigantic dead"), landvaettir ("tutelary deities of places"), disir, fylgja ("female figure following...

well as folkloric beliefs and customs related to beings such as elves, landvættir and huldufólk. The theological views of Ásatrúarfélagið's members may...

the crest is a reference to Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. One of the Landvættir of Iceland was the dragon guarding Vopnafjörður: King Harald told a warlock...

guardian spirits: a dragon, a vulture, a bull and a giant." These four landvættir ("guardian spirits") had been described by Snorri Sturluson in his 13th-century...

America. It is not uncommon for offerings to be made to non-Germanic landvættir such as those from Celtic, Slavic and First Nation low mythologies. This...