Word origins

• otherSee other (determiner) below.
• askTo request (information, or an answer to a question).
• raiseTo cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• TyrThe Norse god of war, identifiable with Tiu or Tiw.
• SvalbardAn archipelago, territory, and unincorporated area of Norway northeast of Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean.
• thorthere
• maraA nightmare; a spectre or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore; a female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
• runeA letter, or character, used in the written language of various ancient Germanic peoples, especially the Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons.
• hofAn enclosure, court, dwelling, building, or house.
• SothebyA habitational surname from Old English.
• RagnarokA series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and the einherjar on one side, and the forces of Surtr, Loki, and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.
• LokiThe god of mischief and trickery; growing progressively evil, he kills Balder, and is bound until Ragnarok, the end of the world.
• valkyrieAny of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.
• berserkSynonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”).
• EddaA collection of Old Norse poems and tales from two medieval manuscripts found in Iceland.
• berserkerA Norse warrior who purportedly fought in a trance-like frenzy; a berserk.
• vendSynonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
• SigurdThe principal hero of the Volsungasaga and of the Elder Edda's Niflung cycle, who slew a dragon.
• kierA bleaching vat.
• crawThe stomach of an animal.
• nannagrandmother
• kistA chest.
• jarlA medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark.
• SkollA moon of Saturn.
• FenrirA monstrous wolf, one of Loki's offspring, who bites off Tyr's right hand while being bound by the gods in fear of a prophecy that he will kill Odin, remaining so bound until the events of Ragnarok.
• balderThe Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.
• HatiThe vargr (giant wolf) who chases Máni (the Moon) across the night sky until Ragnarök, when he will swallow Máni; son of Fenrir and brother of Sköll.
• FafnirThe son of the dwarf king Hreiddmar, who killed his father, transformed into a lindworm, a type of dragon, and was subsequently slain by Sigurd.
• YggdrasilThe cosmic axis of Norse mythology, conceptualized as a living ash tree that structures, connects, and sustains the universe and its various realms or worlds.
• skaldA Nordic poet of the Viking Age.
• YmirA moon of Saturn.
• NornAny of the three goddesses of fate or destiny.
• FreyjaA deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.
• VanirThe principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
• karvea multipurpose intermediate size Viking longship
• SleipnirThe eight-legged horse of Odin.
• SweynA male given name.
• ÆgirA giant and king of the sea, personifying the power thereof. He is the son of Fornjótr, and the brother of Logi and Kári. He has nine daughters — the billow maidens — by his wife, Rán, namely: Bára, Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, and Unnr.
• ÆsirThe principal group of benevolent deities in the Norse pantheon, representing power and war; opponents of the Vanir.
• aettA division of the runic alphabet containing eight runes.
• AlfheimThe home of the Ljósálfar (light elves, álfar, divine beings), located up in the sky.
• AlvíssmálThe Sayings of Alvís (or) The Sayings of the All-Wise; the tenth poem of the Poetic Edda.
• atgeirA kind of spear-like polearm used by the Norse, conventionally translated as halberd, but of uncertain precise nature.
• Baldrs draumarThe Dreams of Baldur; the eleventh book of the Poetic Edda.
• Dellingra figure in Norse mythology, the father of Dagr (the Day)
• drapaA heroic, laudatory verse form in old Icelandic, popular between the 10th and 13th centuries and featuring a refrain
• duergarOne of a race of ugly dwarfs, particularly associated with the Simonside Hills of Northumberland in northern England.
• einherjarThe warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast and prepare for Ragnarok.
• FarbautiA moon of Saturn.
• galdrAn ancient form of shamanic chanting, an improvisational magical song, especially for a protective effect. Compare the custom of the joik and other chanting traditions among the Sámi shamanic noaidi who shares mutual influence with the Norse shamanic vǫlva and other Norse magical customs.
• GondlirOdin.
• GrimnirOdin; specifically, the name adopted by Odin in Grímnismál ("The Lay of Grimnir", also called "Grimnir's Sayings", in the Poetic Edda).
• GullinburstiA giant bronze mechanical boar forged by Brokkr and Eitri as a gift for the god Freyr.
• HálogiAnother name for Logi.
• HávamálThe Sayings of the High One; the second book of the Poetic Edda.
• HellulandThe name given by the Icelandic Norseman Leif Erikson to the portion of North America in modern-day Baffin Island, Canada when he arrived there circa 1000 CE.
• hersirA local leader in early mediaeval Norway.
• hnefataflAn ancient Norse board game.
• HœnirA Norse Æsir god, who, along with Odin and Lodur, created the first humans.
• JafnhárOne of the three enthroned figures who feature opposite King Gylfi in the Gylfaginning.
• JörmungandrThe World Serpent or Midgard Serpent, an offspring of Loki, which is thrown into the ocean by Odin but grows to encircle the world, and is finally slain during Ragnarok by Thor, who then succumbs to its poisonous breath.
• Jötunheimrthe realm of the Jötnar gods
• knarrA kind of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings.
• lethingA public levy of free farmers in mediaeval Scandinavia, to organise coastal fleets for seasonal excursions and in defence of the realm.
• Máni307261 Máni: a trans-Neptunian object and possible dwarf planet.
• MjollnirThe hammer of the Norse god Thor.
• MuspellThe primordial realm of fire which existed to the south of Ginnungagap.
• NeamdaleNamdalen (a valley and district of Trøndelag, Norway).
• NidavellirThe realm of the dwarves, one of the nine realms.
• NiflheimIn Germanic and Norse cosmology, the Norse underworld, location of the domain Hel and of the realm of Hel, the goddess of the dead.
• Reamsdalethe Romsdal (a valley in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
• seiðkonaA female practitioner of seiðr; a seeress; a witch.
• seiðrA form of magic originating in Viking society and revived by modern pagans, incorporating ritualistic, shamanistic, and divinatory elements.
• skraelingA member of a race of native people encountered by early Norse settlers to Greenland, often equated with Inuit or American Indians.
• slaframineAn indolizidine alkaloidal mycotoxin that causes salivation in most animals.
• South MereSunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
• spakonaA seeress, a prophetess, in Old Norse society.
• Svartálfara race of black or dark elves that populate Svartálfaheimr, one of the nine realms
• ThrondhamA city and municipality of Trøndelag county, Norway. Official name: Trondheim.
• Throndspeople from Trøndelag
• VanaheimrThe realm populated by the Vanir gods, one of the nine realms.
• VidofnirA mythological bird (variously, a falcon or a rooster) that inhabits the top of Mímameiðr, a tree identified with Yggdrasil; sometimes positioned on the brow of another cosmic bird.
• vitkiA sorcerer in Norse Heathen societies.
• VöluspáThe Prophecy of the Vǫlva; the first poem of the Poetic Edda.
• völvaIn Old Norse society, a female practitioner of magic divination and prophecy.
• ÞrymskviðaThe Lay of Thrym; a poem of the Poetic Edda.