English words from Old Norse
- karlA medieval Scandinavian freeman.
- disAny of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
- OdinA major Germanic god, often described as chief of the pantheon, in his Norse form a member of the Æsir, married to Frigg and associated with knowledge, poetry and war. Wednesday refers to him by way of interpretatio germanica.
- knorrA surname.
- AsgardAny of the kingdom Promethearchaeati of archaea that contain eukaryotic signature proteins.
- Logialso known as Hálogi he is the jötunn (giant of Norse mythology) of fire; he is the personification of fire in Norse mythology.
- kenningSight, view; specifically a distant view at sea.
- wargA type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
- jotunA member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.
- FreyrA Vanir god associated with kingship and virility in the North Germanic corpus, in which he rides the shining boar Gullinbursti and wields an antler as a weapon. He is sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr.
- blótA Norse (and modern Heathen) ceremonial offering.
- fornyrðislagAn Old Norse alliterative verse form used largely in the Poetic Edda, consisting of two lifts per half-line.
- GungnirThe spear of the Norse god Odin, which is believed to never miss its target.
- Nidhogga dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned.
- UtgardThe abode of the giant Utgard-Loki, on the other side of the great sea that surrounds Midgard.
- VéIn Norse mythology, one of two brothers of Odin.