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Norse Mythology
Boda Mythology
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11th Grade
05/14/2014

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Term
Frigg
Definition
  • Mother goddess
  • Wife of Odin
  • Weaves clouds
  • She knows events in the present and future but is powerless to change them
  • Learns of her son's (Balder) death, makes everything promise not to harm him (except mistletoe)
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Odin/Woden/Wotan
Definition
  • Chief of the gods
  • Father of Thor, Balder, and other gods
  • pierces himself with a spear and hands on Yggdrasil for 9 days and nights to learn the secret knowledge of runes
  • has one eye because he traded it for a drink form the spring of clairvoyance
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Thor/Thunor
Definition
  • God of thunder and lightening
  • Mjolnir (ax-hammer that can destroy giants and mountains in a single blow)
  • Has a chariot pulled by 2 goats (he can kill them and eat them and they will come back to life)
  • constantly fighting the World Serpent (Jormungand)
  • capable of drinking an ocean
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Bragi
Definition
  • God of poetry and elegance
  • Loki calls him "Braggart" and the verb "to brag" comes from his name
  • Married to Idun
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Frey/Freyr
Definition
  • God of agriculture, fertility, and plenty
  • Twin to Freyja 
  • Unlike the other gods, Freyr and Freyja are earth dieties
  • Has a sword that can fight by itself
  • The boar is his symbol
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Freya/Freyja
Definition
  • Goddess of love and fertility
  • Twin sister to Frey
  • Slept with 4 dwarfs to get a necklace, which becomes her symbol of fertility
  • Leader of the Valkyries
  • She takes some of the dead warriors for herself
  • Has a chariot drawn by cats
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Heimdall
Definition
  • "World Brightener"
  • God of the dawn
  • Great hearing (can hear grass grow) and eyesight
  • Is the look out on Bifrost (the rainbow bridge to Asgard)
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Loki
Definition
  • God of mischief and fire
  • Trickster figure
  • Unknown parentage
  • Responsible for Balder's death and punished by having snake venom drip on his forehead
  • Jormungand, Hel, and Fenrir are his children
  • Will begin Ragnorak
Term
Hel
Definition
  • Daughter of Loki
  • Giantess
  • Goddess of death and underworld
  • Half black/half white
  • her face and body are human but the legs are of a corpse
  • Has 2 servants: Ganglati and Ganglot
  • Spread the plague with a rake or a broom
Term
World Tree (1)
Definition
  • Asgard
  • home of the gods
Term
World Tree(2)
Definition
Vanaheim
Term
World Tree (3)
Definition
Alfheim
Term
World Tree (4)
Definition
Nidavellir
Term
World Tree (5)
Definition

Midgard

Home of humanity

Midgard Serpent

Term
World Tree (6)
Definition

Jotunheim

home of the giants

Term
World Tree (7)
Definition

Svartalfheim

home of the dark elves

Term
World Tree (8)
Definition

Hel

land of the dead

Term
World Tree (9)
Definition

Muspelheim

home of the fire demons

 

Term
World Tree (other)
Definition

Niffleheim

frozen realm of the dishonored dead

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