Word origins

• GungnirThe spear of the Norse god Odin, which is believed to never miss its target.
• guykerlA giantess, typically a giant wife.
• gyre-carlinA witch.
• haafthe open sea, especially as a place to fish
• HaddiscoeA village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM4496).
• HálogiAnother name for Logi.
• hamingjaA female guardian angel in Norse mythology, believed to accompany a person and decide their luck and happiness.
• hattockA small hat.
• 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.
• heyemhome
• hirpleTo walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling.
• hnefataflAn ancient Norse board game.
• HœnirA Norse Æsir god, who, along with Odin and Lodur, created the first humans.
• holmgangIn Norse and Icelandic culture, a duel to the death.
• Huginnone of a pair of ravens, the other being Muninn, who fly throughout the world and report any unusual events back to Odin. They are essentially Odin's messengers.
• IngarsbyThe preserved site of a deserted medieval village in Hungarton parish, Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6805).
• Ireland's EyeA small island in the Irish Sea north of Howth, County Dublin, Ireland, long uninhabited but visited by day trippers (Irish grid ref O2841).
• 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
• kenspeckEasily known or seen; obvious; apparent.
• knarrA kind of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings.
• LaithwaiteA surname from Old Norse.
• lawtingThe highest court, which was held every summer from medieval times until around the 17th century.
• lethingA public levy of free farmers in mediaeval Scandinavia, to organise coastal fleets for seasonal excursions and in defence of the realm.
• LewthwaiteA surname from Old Norse.
• liggedTired.
• Light AlfsThe Ljósalfar.
• light elfA member of the race of Ljósalfar, daylight dwelling elves or nature spirits (as opposed to the underground dwelling dark elves or dwarves).
• LondesboroughA village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE8645).
• Máni307261 Máni: a trans-Neptunian object and possible dwarf planet.
• manksSomething from the English city of Manchester; short for Mancunian, usually "Mancs"
• mareelSeafire, phosphorescence on the ocean, especially around the Shetland Islands.
• marramAmmophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches.
• MeolsA suburb of Hoylake, Merseyside, England.
• MicklebyA village and civil parish in Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England.
• MicklethwaiteA hamlet in Thursby parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale district (OS grid ref NY284504).
• MímirA figure in Norse mythology renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, beheaded during the Æsir-Vanir War, after which Odin receives secret knowledge and counsel from the severed head.
• MjollnirThe hammer of the Norse god Thor.
• molnupiravirAn antiviral drug developed to treat COVID-19, the first to obtain regulatory approval in the Western World, from the MHRA in the United Kingdom.
• MowsonA surname from Middle English.
• 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.
• Nidhogga dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned.
• NiflheimIn Germanic and Norse cosmology, the Norse underworld, location of the domain Hel and of the realm of Hel, the goddess of the dead.
• North FerribyA large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the River Humber (OS grid ref SE9825).
• odalismA system of heritable freehold property rights to odal land.
• ourieChill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
• Pentland FirthA strait (not a true firth) separating the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland.
• Preston-under-ScarA village and civil parish in Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0791).
• Reamsdalethe Romsdal (a valley in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
• RokkatruA form of Norse neopaganism or Asatru that focuses on veneration of the Jotun and chaotic deities such as Loki.
• roustto rout out of bed; to rouse.
• saitheThe pollock or coalfish or coley (Pollachius virens).
• Scapa FlowA body of sheltered water between islands in the Orkney Islands council area, Scotland.
• Scholar GreenA village in Odd Rode parish, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8357).
• scouryShowery, marked by intermittent rain showers and wind.
• scriddanA kind of landslide in which rain loosens the side of a mountain or hill and rocks slide down.
• scugShade, shadow.
• sea kingA Viking pirate chief.
• SeatterA surname from Old Norse.
• seaveA rush (the plant).
• 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.
• sillockA pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.
• skirpA drop, a splash (of water, rain, etc).
• 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.
• slockenTo put out, extinguish (a fire).
• slotchAn idle, slouching fellow; a slovenly, slipshod person.
• SnaefellA mountain, the highest in the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC3988).
• SnarrA surname.
• South MereSunnmøre (a district in North Western Norway, now in Møre og Romsdal county).
• South RonaldsayAn island of the Orkney Islands council area, Scotland.
• spakonaA seeress, a prophetess, in Old Norse society.
• SparhamA village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG0719).
• staithA shore or a riverbank.
• St KildaAn archipelago in the westernmost part of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
• StockdalewathA small village in Dalston parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3845).
• stoupA bucket.
• SulbyA village in the Isle of Man.
• SurturA very powerful jotun (giant) and chief of Muspellheim, described in the Eddas as wielding a flaming (or shining) sword and as battling the gods and killing Freyr during Ragnarok.
• Svartálfara race of black or dark elves that populate Svartálfaheimr, one of the nine realms
• SwartbyA habitational surname.
• thingmanOne of several men gathered at a thing, for example to settle a dispute over a debt.
• ThorfidaA female given name
• ThrondhamA city and municipality of Trøndelag county, Norway. Official name: Trondheim.
• Throndishrelated or pertaining to Trøndelag, Norway, or Thronds
• Throndspeople from Trøndelag
• ThrowendA male given name, equivalent to Old Norse Þróndr.
• ThrowendhamTrøndelag
• Throwendishrelated or pertaining to Throwends or Throwendham
• TrewhittA surname from Old Norse.
• UladstirUlster (sense 1)
• UtgardThe abode of the giant Utgard-Loki, on the other side of the great sea that surrounds Midgard.
• UtterbyA village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3093).
• valknutA symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles, used by ancient Germanic peoples, but of uncertain meaning.