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| the first woman in Norse mythology |
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| also called Norns-women spirits who controlled humans' fates by spinning a thread for every human life-they lived at the foot of the world tree and cared for it-names:Urd,Verdande,Skuld |
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| wisest of the jotum, owner of the magic spring of wisdom |
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| one of Odin's nine sons, the god of thunder and the strongest Norse god, his symbol is the hammer |
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| Thor's wife, goddess of household and family ties |
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| a jotun and blood-brother of Olin |
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| Loki's jotun wife, an ogress |
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| One of Loki's brood (children), Odin threw it under the earth to protect his people |
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| Another of Loki's brood- a had that odin sent underground to live at the door of Niflheim and rule over the dead |
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| the third of Loke's brood-Odin dragged him to an island in the middle of a lake surrounded by a forest of iron trees-the gnomes had to make a magical chain that he could not break |
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| Hels' howling hound chained to the gate of Hel |
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| adreadful dragon that lived in a whirlpool in Niflheim and chewed at the deepest root of Yggdrasil |
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