norse mythology

Noun
  1. The mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity (synset 108000298)
    associated with:
    • asgard - (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes
    • valhalla, walhalla - (Norse mythology) the hall in which the souls of heros slain in battle were received by Odin
    • midgard - (Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology
    • fafnir - (Norse mythology) the Norse dragon that guarded a treasure and was slain by Sigurd
    • sigurd - (Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart
    • aesir - (Norse mythology) the chief of gods living at Asgard
    • andvari - (Norse mythology) a dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki
    • vanir - (Norse mythology) group of ancient gods sometimes in conflict with the Aesir
    • balder, baldr - (Norse mythology) god of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature; son of Odin and Frigg and husband of Nanna; killed by Hoth
    • brage, bragi - (Norse mythology) god of poetry and music; son of Odin
    • elli - (Norse mythology) goddess of old age who defeated Thor in a wrestling match
    • forseti - (Norse mythology) god of justice; son of Balder and Nanna
    • frey, freyr - (Norse mythology) god of earth's fertility and peace and prosperity; son of Njorth and brother of Freya; originally of the Vanir; later with the Aesir
    • freya, freyja - (Norse mythology) goddess of love and fecundity; daughter of Njorth and sister of Frey
    • frigg, frigga - (Norse mythology) goddess of the heavens and married love; wife of Odin
    • heimdal, heimdall, heimdallr - (Norse mythology) god of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard
    • hel, hela - (Norse mythology) goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld
    • hoenir - (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind
    • hoder, hodr, hodur, hoth, hothr - (Norse mythology) a blind god; misled by Loki, he kills his brother Balder by throwing a shaft of mistletoe
    • idun, ithunn - (Norse mythology) goddess of spring and wife of Bragi; guarded the apples that kept the gods eternally young
    • jotun, jotunn - (Norse mythology) one of a group of giants often in conflict with the Aesir
    • loki - (Norse mythology) trickster; god of discord and mischief; contrived death of Balder and was overcome by Thor
    • mimir - (Norse mythology) giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom
    • nanna - (Norse mythology) wife of Balder
    • njord, njorth - (Norse mythology) chief of the Vanir; god of the sea and winds and prosperity; father of Frey and Freya; sometimes subsumes Teutonic Nerthus
    • norn, weird sister - (Norse mythology) any of the three goddesses of destiny; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae
    • odin - (Norse mythology) ruler of the Aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of Frigg; identified with the Teutonic Wotan
    • sif - (Norse mythology) wife of Thor and guardian of the home
    • sigyn - (Norse mythology) wife of Loki; held a cup over him during his punishment to spare him the pain of drops of poison
    • thor - (Norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; identified with Teutonic Donar
    • tyr, tyrr - (Norse mythology) god of war and strife and son of Odin; identified with Anglo-Saxon Tiu
    • ull, ullr - (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir known for his beauty and skill with bow and skis; son of Sif and stepson of Thor
    • vali - (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir and avenger of Balder; son of Odin
    • vidar, vithar, vitharr - (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir; son of Odin; avenges his parent by slaying Fenrir at Ragnarok
    • fenrir - (Norse mythology) an enormous wolf that was fathered by Loki and that killed Odin
    • volund - (Norse mythology) a wonderful smith; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wayland and Teutonic Wieland
    • ygdrasil, yggdrasil - (Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together
    • ymir - (Norse mythology) the primeval giant slain by Odin and his brothers and from whose body they created the world: the sea from his blood; the earth from his flesh; the mountains from his bones; the sky from his skull
    • brunhild, brunnhilde, brynhild - a Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried; when he deceived her she had him killed and then committed suicide
    • valkyrie - (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla
    domain region: deutschland, federal republic of germany, frg, germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
    is a type of: mythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

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