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Mjölnir

Index Mjölnir

In Norse mythology, Mjölnir (Mjǫllnir) is the hammer of Thor, the Norse god associated with thunder. [1]

88 relations: Alemanni, Altuna Runestone, Axe of Perun, Æsir, Þrymr, Þrymskviða, Bracteate, Brokkr, Codex Regius, Corded Ware culture, Danish Runic Inscription 48, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Donar's Oak, Draupnir, Dwarf (mythology), East Anglia, Eitri, Freyja, Freyr, Gabriel Turville-Petre, Gårdstånga, Gullinbursti, Gungnir, Hallow, Heathenry (new religious movement), Henry Mayr-Harting, Hercules' Club (amulet), Hilda Ellis Davidson, History of Anglo-Saxon England, Hittite language, Indo-Hittite, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Irminsul, Járngreipr, Julius Pokorny, Jutland, Karlevi Runestone, Kent, Labrys, Laeborg Runestone, Lightning, List of Germanic deities, List of mythological objects, Loki, Marvel Comics, Megingjörð, Mjolnir (comics), National Museum of Iceland, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Norse mythology, ..., Numbers in Norse mythology, Old Norse, Perkūnas, Picture stone, Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Proto-Indo-European language, Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Ritten, Runestone, Södermanland Runic Inscription 86, Science 2.0, Sindri (mythology), Skáldskaparmál, Skíðblaðnir, Sons of Ivaldi, Southern Limestone Alps, Stenkvista runestone, Strandby, Sun cross, Swastika, T, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, Tórshavn, The Guardian, Thor, Thor (Marvel Comics), Thunderbolt, Torsås Municipality, Tróndur í Gøtu, Uchide no kozuchi, Ukonvasara, Uncial script, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers, Vajra, Y, 20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht). Expand index (38 more) »

Alemanni

The Alemanni (also Alamanni; Suebi "Swabians") were a confederation of Germanic tribes on the Upper Rhine River.

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Altuna Runestone

The Altuna Runestone (Altunastenen), listed as U 1161 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone with images from Norse mythology that is located in Altuna, Uppland, Sweden.

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Axe of Perun

The Axe of Perun, also called a "hatchet amulet", is an archaeological artifact worn as a pendant and shaped like a battle axe.

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Æsir

In Old Norse, ǫ́ss (or áss, ás, plural æsir; feminine ásynja, plural ásynjur) is a member of the principal pantheon in Norse religion.

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Þrymr

In Norse mythology, Þrymr (Thrymr, Thrym; "uproar") was king of the jǫtnar.

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Þrymskviða

Þrymskviða (the name can be anglicised as Thrymskviða, Thrymskvitha, Thrymskvidha or Thrymskvida) is one of the best known poems from the Poetic Edda.

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Bracteate

A bracteate (from the Latin bractea, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (including the Vendel era in Sweden).

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Brokkr

In Norse mythology, Brokkr (Old Norse "the one who works with metal fragments; blacksmith", anglicized Brokk) is a dwarf, and the brother of Eitri or Sindri.

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Codex Regius

Codex Regius (Rēgius, "(The) Royal Book"; Konungsbók) or GKS 2365 4º is an Icelandic codex in which many Old Norse poems are preserved.

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Corded Ware culture

The Corded Ware culture (Schnurkeramik; céramique cordée; touwbekercultuur) comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between 2900 BCE – circa 2350 BCE, thus from the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.

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Danish Runic Inscription 48

Danish Runic Inscription 48 or DR 48 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone from Hanning, which is about north of Skjern, Denmark.

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Deutsches Wörterbuch

The Deutsches Wörterbuch (The German Dictionary), abbreviated DWB, is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the German language in existence.

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Donar's Oak

Jove's Oak (interpretatio romana for Donar's Oak and therefore sometimes referred to as Thor's Oak) was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now the region of Hesse, Germany.

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Draupnir

In Norse mythology, Draupnir (Old Norse "the dripper"Orchard (1997:34).) is a gold ring possessed by the god Odin with the ability to multiply itself: Every ninth night, eight new rings 'drip' from Draupnir, each one of the same size and weight as the original.

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Dwarf (mythology)

In Germanic mythology, a dwarf is a human-shaped entity that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is variously associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.

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Eitri

In Norse mythology, Eitri (or Sindri) is a dwarf and the brother of Brokkr.

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Freyja

In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse for "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death.

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Freyr

Freyr (Old Norse: Lord), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god associated with sacral kingship, virility and prosperity, with sunshine and fair weather, and pictured as a phallic fertility god in Norse mythology.

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Gabriel Turville-Petre

Edward Oswald Gabriel Turville-Petre F.B.A. (known as Gabriel) (25 March 1908 – 17 February 1978) was Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford.

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Gårdstånga

Gårdstånga is a locality situated in Eslöv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 343 inhabitants in 2010.

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Gullinbursti

Gullinbursti (meaning "Gold Mane or Golden Bristles") is a boar in Norse mythology.

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Gungnir

In Norse mythology, Gungnir (Old Norse "swaying one"Orchard (1997:67).) is the spear of the god Odin.

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Hallow

To hallow is "to make holy or sacred, to sanctify or consecrate, to venerate".

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Heathenry (new religious movement)

Heathenry, also termed Heathenism or Germanic Neopaganism, is a modern Pagan religion.

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Henry Mayr-Harting

Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting (born 6 April 1936) is a British medieval ecclesiastical historian.

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Hercules' Club (amulet)

Hercules' Club (also Hercules-club, Club-of-Hercules; German Herkuleskeule, Donarkeule) is a Roman Empire and Migration era artefact type.

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Hilda Ellis Davidson

Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson (born Hilda Roderick Ellis, 1 October 1914 – January 2006) was an English antiquarian and academic, writing in particular on Germanic paganism and Celtic paganism.

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History of Anglo-Saxon England

Anglo-Saxon England was early medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th century from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066.

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Hittite language

Hittite (natively " of Neša"), also known as Nesite and Neshite, is an Indo-European-language that was spoken by the Hittites, a people of Bronze Age Anatolia who created an empire, centred on Hattusa.

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Indo-Hittite

In Indo-European linguistics, the term Indo-Hittite (also Indo-Anatolian) refers to Sturtevant's 1926 hypothesis that the Anatolian languages may have split off a Pre-Proto-Indo-European language considerably earlier than the separation of the remaining Indo-European languages.

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Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch

The Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (IEW; "Indo-European Etymological Dictionary") was published in 1959 by the Austrian-German comparative linguist and Celtic languages expert Julius Pokorny.

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Irminsul

An Irminsul (Old Saxon, probably "great/mighty pillar" or "arising pillar") was a sacral pillar-like object attested as playing an important role in the Germanic paganism of the Saxon people.

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Járngreipr

In Norse mythology, Járngreipr (Old Norse "iron grippers") or Járnglófar ("iron gauntlets"Simek (2007:178).) are the iron gloves of the god Thor.

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Julius Pokorny

Julius Pokorny (12 June 1887 – 8 April 1970) was an Austrian-Czech linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter of Irish nationalism.

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Jutland

Jutland (Jylland; Jütland), also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (Cimbricus Chersonesus; Den Kimbriske Halvø; Kimbrische Halbinsel), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany.

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Karlevi Runestone

The Karlevi Runestone, designated as Öl 1 by Rundata, is commonly dated to the late 10th century and located near the Kalmarsund straight in Karlevi on the island of Öland, Sweden.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Labrys

Labrys (Greek: λάβρυς, lábrus) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a) the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe called in Greek a πέλεκυς (pélekus).

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Laeborg Runestone

The Læborg or Laeborg Runestone, listed as DR 26 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone located outside of the village hall or Forsamlinghus in Læborg, which is about 3 kilometers north of Vejen, Denmark.

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Lightning

Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.

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List of Germanic deities

In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples that inhabited Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.

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List of mythological objects

Mythological objects encompass a variety of items (e.g. weapons, armour, clothing) found in mythology, legend, folklore, tall tale, fable, religion, and spirituality from across the world.

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Loki

Loki (Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, often Anglicized as) is a god in Norse mythology.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Megingjörð

In Norse mythology, the megingjörð (meaning "power-belt"Orchard (1997:110) in Old Norse) is a belt worn by the god Thor.

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Mjolnir (comics)

Mjolnir is a fictional mythical weapon appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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National Museum of Iceland

The National Museum of Iceland (Þjóðminjasafn Íslands) was established on 24 February 1863, with Jón Árnason the first curator of the Icelandic collection, previously kept in Danish museums.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.

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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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Numbers in Norse mythology

The numbers three and nine are significant numbers in Norse mythology and paganism.

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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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Perkūnas

Perkūnas (Perkūnas, Pērkons, Old Prussian: Perkūns, Yotvingian: Parkuns) was the common Baltic god of thunder, one of the most important deities in the Baltic pantheon.

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Picture stone

A picture stone, image stone or figure stone is an ornate slab of stone, usually limestone, which was raised in Germanic Iron Age or Viking Age Scandinavia, and in the greatest number on Gotland.

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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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Proto-Indo-European language

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, the most widely spoken language family in the world.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.

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Ritten

Ritten (Renon) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy.

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Runestone

A runestone is typically a raised stone with a runic inscription, but the term can also be applied to inscriptions on boulders and on bedrock.

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Södermanland Runic Inscription 86

Sö 86 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runic inscription located in Åby, which is about one kilometer north of Ålberga, Södermanland County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Södermanland.

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Science 2.0

Science 2.0 is a suggested new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies.

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Sindri (mythology)

In Norse mythology, Sindri (from the Old Norse sindr: "spark") is the name of both a character (probably a dwarf) and a hall that will serve as a dwelling place for the souls of the virtuous after Ragnarök.

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Skáldskaparmál

The second part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda the Skáldskaparmál ("language of poetry"; c. 50,000 words) is effectively a dialogue between Ægir, the Norse god of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined.

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Skíðblaðnir

Skíðblaðnir (Old Norse 'assembled from thin pieces of wood'Simek (2007:289).), sometimes anglicized as Skidbladnir or Skithblathnir, is the best of ships in Norse mythology.

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Sons of Ivaldi

In Norse mythology, the Sons of Ivaldi are a group of dwarfs who fashion Skidbladnir, the ship of Freyr, and the Gungnir, the spear of Odin, as well as golden hair for Sif to replace what Loki had cut off.

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Southern Limestone Alps

The Southern Limestone Alps (Italian: Alpi Sud-orientali) are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps mainly located in northern Italy and the adjacent lands of Austria and Slovenia.

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Stenkvista runestone

The Stenkvista runestone in Södermanland, Sweden, with its Thor's hammer. The Stenkvista runestone, designated as runic inscription Sö 111 in the Rundata catalog, is a memorial runestone located near the church at Stenkvista, which is two kilometers east of Skogstorp, Södermanland County, Sweden, which was formerly part of the historic Södermanland, and which features a depiction of Thor's hammer, Mjöllnir.

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Strandby

Strandby is a coastal town in Denmark, located in Region Nordjylland.

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Sun cross

A sun cross, solar cross, or wheel cross is a solar symbol consisting of an equilateral cross inside a circle.

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Swastika

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it has been and remains a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, Chinese religions, Mongolian and Siberian shamanisms.

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T

T (named tee) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr

Tanngrisnir (Old Norse "teeth-barer, snarler") and Tanngnjóstr (Old Norse "teeth grinder") are the goats who pull the god Thor's chariot in Norse mythology.

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Tórshavn

Tórshavn (lit. 'Thor's harbour'; Thorshavn) is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Thor

In Norse mythology, Thor (from Þórr) is the hammer-wielding god of thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, in addition to hallowing, and fertility.

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Thor (Marvel Comics)

Thor is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Thunderbolt

A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap.

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Torsås Municipality

Torsås Municipality (Torsås kommun, Torsås meaning "Thor's ridge") is the southernmost municipality of Kalmar County, Sweden.

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Tróndur í Gøtu

Tróndur í Gøtu (Old Icelandic: Þrándr í Götu, Old Norse Þrǫ́ndr í Gǫtu) (ca. 945 – 1035) was a viking from the Faroe Islands.

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Uchide no kozuchi

is a legendary Japanese "magic hammer" which can "tap out" anything wished for.

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Ukonvasara

Ukonvasara, or Ukonkirves, is the symbol and magical weapon of the Finnish thunder god Ukko, similar to Thor's Mjölnir.

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Uncial script

Uncial is a majusculeGlaister, Geoffrey Ashall.

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United States Department of Veterans Affairs

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a federal Cabinet-level agency that provides near-comprehensive healthcare services to eligible military veterans at VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country; several non-healthcare benefits including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, education assistance, home loans, and life insurance; and provides burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members at 135 national cemeteries.

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United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains many cemeteries specifically devoted to veterans.

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Vajra

Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond.

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Y

Y (named wye, plural wyes) is the 25th and penultimate letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

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20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The German 20th Infantry Division was an infantry division of Nazi Germany.

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References

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

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