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| - Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. It is the best-known version of the older common Germanic mythology, which also includes the closely related Anglo-Saxon mythology. Germanic mythology, in its turn, had evolved from an earlier Indo-European mythology.
- Norse mythology is what the Germanic people, Germans, Dutch, Austrians, Scandinavias and others used to believe before Christianity took over. The Mythology forms part of the Norse religion which still exists today and is called Asatru.
- Norse is an old-fashioned way of saying "Norwegian". It is the common name for the frozen religion of the North.
- Norse mythology was highly influential to J. R. R. Tolkien in the creation of his fantasies.
- Norse Mythology (北欧神話 Hokuō Shinwa?) is the mythology of the North Germanic people around the time of the Viking Age (at its height covering most of northern Europe, much of modern Germany and Austria, and parts of the British Isles), continuing through into modern-day Scandinavian folklore, and following the lives of the Norse gods — the Æsir and the Vanir — and the men whose lives they directly affected. In Toaru Majutsu no Index, Norse mythology is often used as a base for Magic. Its prevalence in its usage as a basis for magic is second only to Christianity.
- Norse mythology was the mythology of a pre-Christian pagan religion of the Vikings in Scandinavia (Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark). According to the Third Doctor, much of the mythology was based on real adventures of early Viking history, like the 141 conflict witnessed by the Doctor and Jo Grant between Odin, a human High King of Sweden who possessed an alien artifact known as Gungnir or the Spear of Destiny, and the Vanir, a tribe influenced by the Master under the alias of Frey. (PROSE: The Spear of Destiny)
- Norse mythology, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of mythology of the North Germanic peoples stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology consists of tales of various deities, beings, heroes, and gods are mentioned in the source texts derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period, including medieval manuscripts, archaeological representations, and folk tradition. Once, the Germanic gods where known across Northern Europe and southern England, but at the start of the Viking Age the religion had been (often violently) replaced by Christianity leaving the Norse tribes the last followers.
- Norse mythology underpins a lot of the names in the Creatures series: Image:Mythologic Norns.jpg
* Norns are "the three old women who sit round a giant tree (see Yggdrasil) spinning men's fates, Urd (fate), Skuld (necessity) and Verdandi (being)." Also the name of a language which descended from old Norse, which was spoken in the Shetland and Orkney islands. The extinction of the language is believed to have come about during the 15th century, when the islands were ceded to Scotland, and the new government discouraged the language. Third Party:
- Scandinavian or Norse mythology refers to the pre-Christian beliefs, legends and religion of the Scandinavian people. It is the most widely known version of the older Germanic paganism and Germanic mythology. Although it does have tales of normal people learning the stories of the the gods from the gods themselves, it is not a revealed religion in the sense of truth being handed down from the divine. This article is a stub. You can help WikiPagan by [ expanding it].
- Norse mythology is a collection of beliefs and stories shared by Northern Germanic tribes. It had no one set of doctrinal beliefs. The mythology was orally transmitted in the form of poetry and our knowledge about it is mainly based on the Eddas and other medieval texts written down during and after Christianization.
- Numerous gods are mentioned in the source texts such as the hammer-wielding, humanity-protecting god Thor, who relentlessly pursues his foes; the one-eyed, raven-flanked god Odin, who craftily pursues knowledge throughout the worlds and bestowed among humanity the runic alphabet; the beautiful, seiðr-working, feathered cloak-clad goddess Freyja who rides to battle to choose among the slain; the vengeful, skiing goddess Skaði, who prefers the wolf howls of the winter mountains to the seashore; the powerful god Njörðr, who may calm both sea and fire and grant wealth and land; the god Freyr, whose weather and farming associations bring peace and pleasure to humanity; the goddess Iðunn, who keeps apples that grant eternal youthfulness; the mysterious god Heimdallr, who is born of nine mothers,
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| - Norse mythology, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of mythology of the North Germanic peoples stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology consists of tales of various deities, beings, heroes, and gods are mentioned in the source texts derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period, including medieval manuscripts, archaeological representations, and folk tradition. Once, the Germanic gods where known across Northern Europe and southern England, but at the start of the Viking Age the religion had been (often violently) replaced by Christianity leaving the Norse tribes the last followers. This is still the belief system in Vikings.
- Scandinavian or Norse mythology refers to the pre-Christian beliefs, legends and religion of the Scandinavian people. It is the most widely known version of the older Germanic paganism and Germanic mythology. Although it does have tales of normal people learning the stories of the the gods from the gods themselves, it is not a revealed religion in the sense of truth being handed down from the divine. Most information was passed down orally, and has now been lost; some information however was recorded in the Eddas and the Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson – a Christian scholar who believed that Pagan deities were men and women rather than devils. This article is a stub. You can help WikiPagan by [ expanding it].
- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. It is the best-known version of the older common Germanic mythology, which also includes the closely related Anglo-Saxon mythology. Germanic mythology, in its turn, had evolved from an earlier Indo-European mythology.
- Norse mythology was the mythology of a pre-Christian pagan religion of the Vikings in Scandinavia (Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark). According to the Third Doctor, much of the mythology was based on real adventures of early Viking history, like the 141 conflict witnessed by the Doctor and Jo Grant between Odin, a human High King of Sweden who possessed an alien artifact known as Gungnir or the Spear of Destiny, and the Vanir, a tribe influenced by the Master under the alias of Frey. (PROSE: The Spear of Destiny) Odin was the mythical king of the gods. He had only one eye and wore an eyepatch. When the Mire arrived in a Viking village, their leader took Odin's form based on the beliefs of the Vikings in the town. (TV: The Girl Who Died) Odin was the father of Thor. (PROSE: The Spear of Destiny) Sleipnir was an eight-legged horse from Norse mythology. In 1006, the Norse King Sitric Silkbeard of Dublin named his own horse after the legendary animal. (AUDIO: The Book of Kells) Loki was known as a mischievous god of many faces and a trickster. The Doctor was accidentally responsible for the creation of the Loki legend, which came back to haunt him when he was identified as Loki by a Viking princess. (PROSE: Dark Horizons) Jötunnheim was one of the nine worlds in Norse mythology, inhabited by the Jötunn, or frost giants. (AUDIO: Shield of the Jötunn) Parts of Norse mythology included the great ash tree Yggdrasil, Hvergelmir, a well of poison (which turned out to be a natural well of poisons located at Maiden's Point) and the Great Serpent, prophesied to rise from the sea and spew venom over all the Earth. Fenric took advantage of these myths, planning to have the Great Serpent Ingiger take the poison from Maiden's Point and carry it to the sea to poison the world forever. Fenric's name, though not his real one, and his "wolves" were also based on the Ragnarok myth. (TV: The Curse of Fenric) The Garm guarded the Forbidden Zone on Terminus, working in part with the Vanir. (TV: Terminus) The artificial intelligence WOTAN (Vo-tan) shared its name with the High German god Wotan, who corresponded with the Norse god Odin. (TV: The War Machines) Anthony Rupert Hemmings believed that the Timewyrm was one of the Norse gods. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation) While crossing a stream of mercury, the Seventh Doctor compared it to Elivâger, the stream that flowed through Ginnunga Gap. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible) In the early 21st century, several new types of United Nations aircraft and weapons were named after Norse gods, such as the Odin (a remote-controlled helicopter) and the Loki (a fighter plane armed with Valkyries, Niffelheims and Ragnaroks). (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead) Tiw Heimdall compared the Bridge, a trisilicate filament linking the moons Belial and Moloch, to Bifrost, the rainbow bridge of the Aesir in Norse mythology. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising)
- Norse mythology is what the Germanic people, Germans, Dutch, Austrians, Scandinavias and others used to believe before Christianity took over. The Mythology forms part of the Norse religion which still exists today and is called Asatru.
- Norse is an old-fashioned way of saying "Norwegian". It is the common name for the frozen religion of the North.
- Norse mythology was highly influential to J. R. R. Tolkien in the creation of his fantasies.
- Numerous gods are mentioned in the source texts such as the hammer-wielding, humanity-protecting god Thor, who relentlessly pursues his foes; the one-eyed, raven-flanked god Odin, who craftily pursues knowledge throughout the worlds and bestowed among humanity the runic alphabet; the beautiful, seiðr-working, feathered cloak-clad goddess Freyja who rides to battle to choose among the slain; the vengeful, skiing goddess Skaði, who prefers the wolf howls of the winter mountains to the seashore; the powerful god Njörðr, who may calm both sea and fire and grant wealth and land; the god Freyr, whose weather and farming associations bring peace and pleasure to humanity; the goddess Iðunn, who keeps apples that grant eternal youthfulness; the mysterious god Heimdallr, who is born of nine mothers, can hear grass grow, has gold teeth, and possesses a resounding horn; the jötunn Loki, who brings tragedy to the gods by engineering the death of the goddess Frigg's beautiful son Baldr; and numerous other deities. Most of the surviving mythology centers on the plights of the gods and their interaction with various other beings, such as humanity and the jötnar, beings who may be friends, lovers, foes and/or family members of the gods. The cosmos in Norse mythology consist of Nine Worlds that flank a central cosmological tree, Yggdrasil. Units of time and elements of the cosmology are personified as deities or beings. Various forms of a creation myth are recounted, where the world is created from the flesh of the primordial being Ymir, and the first two humans are Ask and Embla. These worlds are foretold to be reborn after the events of Ragnarök, when an immense battle occurs between the gods and their enemies, and the world is enveloped in flames, only to be reborn anew. There the surviving gods will meet, and the land will be fertile and green, and two humans will repopulate the world. Norse mythology has been the subject of scholarly discourse since the 17th century, when key texts were brought to the attention of the intellectual circles of Europe. By way of comparative mythology and historical linguistics, scholars have identified elements of Germanic mythology reaching as far back as Proto-Indo-European mythology. In the modern period, the Romanticist Viking revival re-awoke an interest in the subject matter, and references to Norse mythology may now be found throughout modern popular culture. The myths have further been revived in a religious context among adherents of Germanic Neopaganism.
- Norse mythology underpins a lot of the names in the Creatures series: Image:Mythologic Norns.jpg
* Norns are "the three old women who sit round a giant tree (see Yggdrasil) spinning men's fates, Urd (fate), Skuld (necessity) and Verdandi (being)." Also the name of a language which descended from old Norse, which was spoken in the Shetland and Orkney islands. The extinction of the language is believed to have come about during the 15th century, when the islands were ceded to Scotland, and the new government discouraged the language.
* Yggsdrasil was the World Tree, binding heaven, hell and earth.
* Geatland is another name for Gotland, an island which nowadays is in Sweden and Geats were the Scandinavian inhabitants of that island. According to Jordanes and modern archaeological finds, Geats are, in reality, the same as the Goths, or at least closely related.
* Jörmungand was a giant sea serpent that encircled Midgard, holding its tail in its mouth. One of the children of the trickster god, Loki.
* Mjollnir was Thor's hammer, used in combat and the cause of thunder.
* Niflheim is a region of darkness and cold - it is the lowest level of the universe, underneath Yggsdrasil's roots.
* Ragnarok is the Norse name for the battle in which all gods will die, along with all people (except Lif and Lifrasthir, who will restart all humankind). The sun will be eaten by the giant wolf Fenrir, and giants will go to war. It was said that it would be 'the end of the world'. Steve Grand was not unaware of where he had got his material from. Indeed, in a rare posting to alt.games.creatures he mentioned that: "I do half expect a band of marauding Vikings to turn up any day now, asking for their myths back!" Third Party:
* The Fimbulwinter will be immediately before the end of the world, Ragnarok. The Fimbulwinter will be three winters in a row without any summers.
* Audmula was a supernatural cow, who emerged from the nothingness at the beginning of the world. She nourished the first frost giant with her milk, and licked Bor, the father of the Gods, out of primeval ice.
- Norse mythology is a collection of beliefs and stories shared by Northern Germanic tribes. It had no one set of doctrinal beliefs. The mythology was orally transmitted in the form of poetry and our knowledge about it is mainly based on the Eddas and other medieval texts written down during and after Christianization. Some aspects of Norse mythology passed into Scandinavian folklore and have survived to modern day times. Others have recently been reinvented or reconstructed as Germanic neopaganism. The mythology also remains as an inspiration in literature (see Norse mythological influences on later literature) as well as on stage productions and movies. The Norse mythology is a subset or root of the wide Germanic mythology.
- Norse Mythology (北欧神話 Hokuō Shinwa?) is the mythology of the North Germanic people around the time of the Viking Age (at its height covering most of northern Europe, much of modern Germany and Austria, and parts of the British Isles), continuing through into modern-day Scandinavian folklore, and following the lives of the Norse gods — the Æsir and the Vanir — and the men whose lives they directly affected. In Toaru Majutsu no Index, Norse mythology is often used as a base for Magic. Its prevalence in its usage as a basis for magic is second only to Christianity.
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