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Odin's Names
Odin (Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god in Germanic mythology. The god is referred to by numerous names and kenningar, particularly in the Old Norse record. List In Old English, Odin was known as ; in Old Saxon, as ; and in Old High German, as or . See also *List of names of Thor *List of names of Freyr The Germanic god Freyr is referred to by many names in Old Norse poetry and Old Norse literature, literature. Multiple of these are attested only once in the extant record and are found principally in Skáldskaparmál. Some names have been furthe ... * List of kennings * Mercurius Cimbrianus * Names of God in Old English poetry * Godan and Wodan References * * * * Notes Further reading * External linksMyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository)Illustrations of Bǫlverkr from manuscripts and early print books. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Names Of Odin Odin, names of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Von Rosen - Oden Som Vandringsman, 1886 (Odin, The Wanderer)
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Sonatorrek
''Sonatorrek'' ("the irreparable loss of sons") is a skaldic poem in 25 stanzas, that appears in Egil's Saga (written c.a. 1220–1240), an Icelandic saga focusing on the life of skald and viking, Egill Skallagrímsson (ca. 910–990). The work laments the death of two of the poet's sons, Gunnar, who died of a fever, and Böðvarr, who drowned during a storm. In the assessment of Margaret Clunies Ross, ''Sonatorrek'' "has probably received, from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, the greatest literary approbation accorded to any single skaldic poem".Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), "''Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar''", in Margaret Clunies Ross, Kari Ellen Gade and Tarrin Wills (eds), ''Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders, Part 1'', Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, 5 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022), pp. 152–391. According to the saga, after Egill placed Böðvarr in the family burial mound, he locked himself in his bed-chamber, determined to starve himself to d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egill Skallagrímsson
Egil Skallagrímsson ( ; Modern Icelandic: ; 904 995) was a Viking Age war poet, sorcerer, berserker, and farmer.Thorsson, 3 He is known mainly as the anti-hero of '' Egil's Saga''. ''Egil's Saga'' historically narrates a period from approximately 850 to 1000 AD and is believed to have been written between 1220 and 1240 AD. Life Egil was born in Iceland, to Skalla-Grímr Kveldúlfsson and Bera Yngvarsdóttir; he was the grandson of Kveld-Úlfr (whose name means 'evening wolf'). Another of his ancestors, Hallbjörn, was Norwegian- Sami. Skalla-Grímr was a respected chieftain, and mortal enemy of King Harald Fairhair of Norway. He migrated to Iceland, settling at Borg where his father Kveld-Úlfr's coffin landed after being ritualistically set adrift as Skalla-Grímr's boat approached Iceland. Skalla-Grímr and wife Bera had two daughters, Sæunn and Þórunn, and two sons, Þorolfr and Egil. Egil composed his first poem at three years old. He exhibited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borr
In Norse mythology, Borr or Burr (Old Norse: 'borer' sometimes anglicized Bor, Bör or Bur) was the son of Búri. Borr was the husband of Bestla and the father of Odin, Vili and Vé. Borr receives mention in a poem in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, and in the ''Prose Edda'', composed in the 13th century by Icelander Snorri Sturluson. Scholars have proposed a variety of theories about the figure. Attestation Borr is mentioned in the fourth verse of the '' Völuspá'', a poem contained in the ''Poetic Edda'', and in the sixth chapter of '' Gylfaginning'', the second section of the ''Prose Edda''. ''Völuspá'' ''Gylfaginning'' Borr is not mentioned again in the ''Prose Edda''. In skaldic and eddaic poetry, Odin is occasionally referred to as ''Borr's son''. Scholarly reception and interpretation The role of Borr in Norse mythology is unclear. Nineteenth-century German scholar Jacob Grimm proposed to equat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hávamál
''Hávamál'' ( ; Old Norse: ''Hávamál'',Unnormalised spelling in the Codex Regius:''Title'': hava mal''Final stanza'': Nv ero Hava mál q''ve''ðin Háva hꜹ''l''lo i [...] classical pron. , Modern Icelandic pron. , ‘Words of Hávi [the High One]’) is presented as a single poem in the Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. A scholarly estimate of Hávamál's age dates the poem to between 900 and 1000 A.D. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic poetry, gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom. It is considered an important source of Old Norse philosophy. The verses are attributed to Odin; the implicit attribution to Odin facilitated the accretion of various mythological material also dealing with the same deity. For the most part composed in the Meter (poetry), metre Alliterative verse#Ljóðaháttr, ''ljóðaháttr'', a metre associated with wisdom verse, ''Hávamál'' is both practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helgakviða Hundingsbana II
"Völsungakviða in forna" or "Helgakviða Hundingsbana II" ("The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane") is an Old Norse poem found in the ''Poetic Edda''. It constitutes one of the Helgi lays together with '' Helgakviða Hundingsbana I'' and ''Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar''. Henry Adams Bellows maintains in his commentaries that it is a patchwork of various poems that do not fit well together, but stanzas 28-37 and 39-50 are held to be among the finest in Old Norse poetry. The feud with Hunding and his sons The first section (containing stanzas 1 to 4) introduces Helgi as the son of Sigmund, of the Ylfing and the Völsung clan, and Borghild. They resided at Brálund and they named their son after Helgi Hjörvarðsson. Their clan was in a bloody feud with Hunding and his many sons. Helgi disguised himself and visited the home of Hunding's family where the only man present was Hunding's son Hæmingr (unknown in any other source). Hunding sent men to Helgi's foster-father Hagal to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hákonardrápa
''Hákonardrápa'' ("drápa of Hákon") is the name of several skaldic poems. Guthormr sindri's ''Hákonardrápa'' was composed in the 10th century in the honour of King Hákon the Good of Norway. Other ''drápur'', written later in the 10th century, praise the Norwegian jarl Hákon Sigurðarson. They were composed by Einarr skálaglamm, Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld, Tindr Hallkelsson and Þórleifr jarlsskáld Rauðfeldarson. Only one stanza and a few verses of Þórleifr's work on Hákon survived. The stanza (preserved in Snorri Sturluson's ''Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar'') especially praises the jarl for having sent nine princes to Odin (i.e. killed). The latest ''Hákonardrápur'' refer to the king of Norway Hákon Hákonarson (Hákon the Old). They were composed in the 13th century by Gizurr Þorvaldsson, Óláfr Þórðarson hvítaskáld and Óláfr Leggsson svartaskáld. See also * '' Hákonarflokkr'' * '' Hákonarkviða'' * ''Hákonarmál ''Hákonarmál'' (Old Norse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
