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In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse /ˈɡjalr̩horn/,Zoëga(1910:166). "yelling horn"Orchard (1997:57). or "the loud sounding horn"Simek (2007:110).) is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. [1]

50 relations: American football, Andy Orchard, Archaeology of Northern Europe, Benjamin Thorpe, Boydell & Brewer, Brass instrument, Carolyne Larrington, Cumbria, Denmark, England, Everyman's Library, Golden Horns of Gallehus, Gosforth Cross, Gylfaginning, Gylfi, Heimdallr, Henry Adams Bellows (businessman), High, Just-as-High, and Third, International Phonetic Alphabet, Isle of Man, John Lindow, Lur, Mímir, Mímisbrunnr, Minneapolis, Minnesota Vikings, National Football League, Norrœna Society, Norse cosmology, Norse mythology, Old French, Old Norse, Olifant (instrument), Orion Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Ragnarök, Roland, Rudolf Simek, Skol, Vikings, Snoldelev Stone, Snorri Sturluson, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Thing (assembly), Trumpet, U.S. Bank Stadium, University of Manitoba Press, Vígríðr, Yggdrasil.

American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Andy Orchard

Andrew Philip McDowell "Andy" Orchard, FRSC, FBA (born 27 February 1964) is a British academic in Old English, Norse and Celtic literature.

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Archaeology of Northern Europe

The archaeology of Northern Europe studies the prehistory of Scandinavia and the adjacent North European Plain, roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, northern Germany, Poland and the Netherlands.

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Benjamin Thorpe

Benjamin Thorpe (1782 – 19 July 1870) was an English scholar of Anglo-Saxon.

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Boydell & Brewer

Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England that specializes in publishing historical and critical works.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Carolyne Larrington

Carolyne Larrington (born 5 September 1959) is a British scholar of medieval literature and author.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Everyman's Library

Everyman's Library is a series of reprinted classic literature currently published in hardback by Random House.

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Golden Horns of Gallehus

The Golden Horns of Gallehus were two horns made of sheet gold, discovered in Gallehus, north of Møgeltønder in Southern Jutland, Denmark.

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Gosforth Cross

The Gosforth Cross is a large stone Anglo-Saxon cross, in St Mary's churchyard at Gosforth in the English county of Cumbria, dating to the first half of the 10th century AD.

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Gylfaginning

Gylfaginning (Old Norse pronunciation;; either Tricking of Gylfi; c. 20,000 words), is the first part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda after Prologue.

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Gylfi

In Norse mythology, Gylfi, Gylfe, Gylvi, or Gylve was the earliest recorded king in Scandinavia.

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Heimdallr

In Norse mythology, Heimdallr is a god who possesses the resounding horn Gjallarhorn, owns the golden-maned horse Gulltoppr, has gold teeth, and is the son of Nine Mothers (who may represent personified waves).

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Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)

Henry Adams Bellows (September 22, 1885 – December 29, 1939) was a newspaper editor and radio executive who was an early member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

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High, Just-as-High, and Third

High, Just-As-High, and Third (Old Norse Hár, Jafnhár, and Þriði, respectively) are three men that respond to questions posed by Gangleri (described as king Gylfi in disguise) in the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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John Lindow

John Lindow (born 1946) is a professor emeritus (University of California, Berkeley) specializing in Scandinavian medieval studies and folklore.

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Lur

A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played by embouchure.

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Mímir

Mímir (Old Norse "The rememberer, the wise one")Simek (2007:216).

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Mímisbrunnr

In Norse mythology, Mímisbrunnr (Old Norse "Mímir's well"Simek (2007:216).) is a well associated with the being Mímir, located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Minnesota Vikings

The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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Norrœna Society

The Norrœna Society was the imprint of a private publishing venture that between 1905 and 1911 produced multi-volume sets of reprints of classic 19th-century editions, mostly translations, of Old Norse literary and historical works, Northern European folklore, and medieval literature.

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Norse cosmology

The cosmology of Norse mythology has "nine homeworlds" or "nine realms", unified by the world tree Yggdrasil.

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Norse mythology

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic people stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.

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Old French

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Olifant (instrument)

Olifant (an alternate spelling of the word elephant) was the name applied in the Middle Ages to ivory hunting horns made from elephants' tusks.

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Orion Publishing Group

Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Poetic Edda

Poetic Edda is the modern attribution for an unnamed collection of Old Norse anonymous poems, which is different from the Edda written by Snorri Sturluson.

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Prose Edda

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse work of literature written in Iceland in the early 13th century.

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Ragnarök

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle, foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water.

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Roland

Roland (Frankish: *Hrōþiland; Latin: Hruodlandus, Rotholandus; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France.

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Rudolf Simek

Rudolf Simek (born 21 February 1954 in Eisenstadt, Burgenland) is an Austrian Germanist and philologist.

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Skol, Vikings

"Skol, Vikings" (IPA) is the fight song of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.

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Snoldelev Stone

The Snoldelev Stone, listed as DR 248 in the Rundata catalog, is a 9th-century runestone that was originally located at Snoldelev, Ramsø, Denmark.

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.

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The American-Scandinavian Foundation

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF), is an American non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Thing (assembly)

A thing, also known as Alþing, was the governing assembly of a northern Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by lawspeakers.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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U.S. Bank Stadium

U.S. Bank Stadium is an enclosed stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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University of Manitoba Press

The University of Manitoba Press is a publishing house based at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Vígríðr

In Norse mythology, Vígríðr or Óskópnir is a large field foretold to host a battle between the forces of the gods and the forces of Surtr as part of the events of Ragnarök.

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Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil (or; from Old Norse Yggdrasill, pronounced) is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology.

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Redirects here:

Giallar horn, Giallarhorn, Gjall, Gjallahorn, Gjallar, Gjallar-Horn, Gjallerhorn.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjallarhorn

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