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37 relations: Æsir, Eldir, Epsilon Eridani b, Everyman's Library, Fimafeng, Fornjót, Gerðr, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Gymir, Hversu Noregr byggðist, Hymir, Hymiskviða, Jan de Vries (linguist), Jötunn, John Lindow, Kenning, Læsø, Ler (mythology), Logi, Lokasenna, Loki, Nafnaþulur, Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán, Norse mythology, Ocean, Old Norse, Oxford University Press, Prose Edda, Rán, Richard Cleasby, Rudolf Simek, Skáldskaparmál, Snorri Sturluson, Týr, Thor, Trent Aegir, William Craigie.
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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Eldir
In Norse mythology, Eldir (Old Norse "fire-stoker"Orchard (1997:37).) is a servant of Ægir.
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Epsilon Eridani b
Epsilon Eridani b or AEgir is a proposed and unconfirmed extrasolar planet approximately 10 light-years away orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, in the constellation of Eridanus (the River).
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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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Fimafeng
Fimafeng is a servant of Ægir in Norse mythology.
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Fornjót
In Norse mythology, Fornjót (Old Norse: Fornjótr) was an ancient giant and king of "Gotland, Kænland and Finnland" meaning Gotland, Kvenland and Finland Proper.
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Gerðr
In Norse mythology, Gerðr (Old Norse "fenced-in"Orchard (1997:54).) is a jötunn, goddess, and the wife of the god Freyr.
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Guðbrandur Vigfússon
Guðbrandur Vigfússon, known in English as Gudbrand Vigfusson, (13 March 1827 – 31 January 1889) was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century.
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Gymir
In Norse mythology, Gymir was a giant whose daughter, Gerðr, married the god Freyr.
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Hversu Noregr byggðist
Hversu Noregr byggðist (How Norway was inhabited) is an account of the origin of various legendary Norwegian lineages, which survives only in the Flateyjarbók.
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Hymir
In Norse mythology, Hymir is a giant, husband of the giantess Hroðr and according to the Eddic poem Hymiskviða the father of the god Týr.
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Hymiskviða
Hymiskviða (Hymir's poem; the name can be anglicized as Hymiskvitha, Hymiskvidha or Hymiskvida) is a poem collected in the Poetic Edda.
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Jan de Vries (linguist)
Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries (11 February 1890 – 23 July 1964) was a Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology, from 1926 to 1945 ordinarius at Leiden University and author of reference works still in use today.
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Jötunn
In Norse mythology, a jötunn (plural jötnar) is a type of entity contrasted with gods and other figures, such as dwarfs and elves.
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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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Kenning
A kenning (Old Norse pronunciation:, Modern Icelandic pronunciation) is a type of circumlocution, in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.
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Læsø
Læsø ("Isle of Hlér") is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Danish mainland.
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Ler (mythology)
Ler (meaning "Sea" in Old Irish; Lir is the genitive form) is a sea god in Irish mythology.
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Logi
In Norse mythology, Logi, Loge (Old Norse "fire") or Hálogi ("High Flame") is a fire giant, god and personification of fire.
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Lokasenna
Lokasenna ("Loki's flyting," "Loki's wrangling," "Loki's quarrel") is one of the poems of the Poetic Edda.
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Loki
Loki (Old Norse, Modern Icelandic, often Anglicized as) is a god in Norse mythology.
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Nafnaþulur
Nafnaþulur is a subsection of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the last part of the Skáldskaparmál.
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Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán
In Norse mythology, the goddess Rán and the jötunn Ægir both personify the sea, and together they have nine daughters who personify waves.
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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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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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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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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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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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Rán
In Norse mythology, Rán is a goddess and a personification of the sea.
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Richard Cleasby
Richard Cleasby (1797–1847) was an English philologist, author with Guðbrandur Vigfússon of the first Icelandic-English dictionary.
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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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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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Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.
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Týr
Týr (Old Norse: Týr short.
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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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Trent Aegir
The Trent Aegir, also known as the Eagre, is a tidal bore on the River Trent in England.
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William Craigie
Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 1957) was a philologist and a lexicographer.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ægir
