Scandinavia had mythology {Norse mythology}. Gods were Odin, Thor, and Loki. Main goddess is Freya.
sea god {Aegir}.
Norse gods {Aesir}.
Odin's wise son {Balder}.
goddess of love and beauty {Freya}.
A giant's son {Loki} hated the Good. Loki killed another god with a stone.
The All-Father {Odin} {sky god} was chief god, gained wisdom by losing eye, and gave man runes and mead, both for poetry. Odin is northern name, and Woden is southern name.
Thunder God {Thor} was strongest Norse God, possessor of thunderbolts and hammer. Thor struggled with the World Serpent, pulled it out of sea, and killed it with his hammer. He also fought many-headed giant. He had red beard, which when it shook caused storms. He also had sacred ring, symbol of law and order. Throwing hammer of Thor replaced ax as weapon of sky god. Swastika was symbol of sky god. Thor was God of Justice.
Armed and mounted Norse virgins {Valkyries} were daughters of gods, selectors of the slain, attendants to Odin, and servants at Asgard.
Freyja and Freyr were chief gods in an earlier race {Vanir} of gods.
southern name of chief Norse god {Woden}.
Brunhilde, Sigurd, and Siegfried were people in Norse legends {Norse people}. Sigmund the Volsung, Hadding, and Harold Wartooth were Odin's heroes. Sigurd the Volsung killed dragon. Two birds warned him of the dragon's brother, a treacherous smith. He roasted the dragon's heart, burned his thumb, and thus sucked inspirational dragon's blood. Someone murdered Sigurd.
The hero Siegfried saved Valkyrie {Brunhilde} {Brunhild} and loved her.
Sigurd's brother {Gunnar} died in a snake pit, when King Atli took revenge.
giant {Hymir}.
Hero {Ragmar Lothbrok} slew dragon. His sons captured England.
Volsung's son {Sigmund} had a sister, Signy, who saved him from death. He then avenged himself on the murder of his father and brother.
A hero {Sigurd} {Siegfried} rescued Brunhilde from fire and married Gudrun. The wrath of Brunhilde killed him, and then she killed herself.
home of gods {Asgard}.
Twilight of the Gods or downfall of gods {Götterdämmerung}.
Fates {Norns}.
Earth will face destruction in the future {Ragnarok} {Ops} {Twilight of the Gods}.
Magical inscriptions {rune, Norse}| were for protection.
Icelandic magic sign {torshamarr}.
The home {Valhalla} of dead Norse heroes is a room of Asgard.
An ash tree {Yggdrasil} was between heaven, Earth, and hell. Mimir was well at one root. Odin drank of it to gain wisdom.
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