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Aesir (ay-seer) [gods] Active deities. See Ase
Ager (ay-gear) [a titan or giant] Space: brewer of mead for the gods
Agnar (ang-nar) Name of two early humanities; one was taught by Grimner (Odin)
Alf (alv) [channel] Elf, soul
Allvis (al-veece) [all all + vis wise] A dwarf: worldly wise wooer of Thor's daughter
Andrimner [and air + rimner computation, calendar] One of the boars that feed the One-harriers
Ase (aw-seh) [as topmost roofbeam of a house] An active god. See also Aesir (pl.), Asynja (f.), Asynjor (f. pl.)
Asgard (aws-gawrd) [as god + gard court] Home of the Aesir
Askungen (ask-ung-en) [ask ash + unge child] Ash child, Cinderella
Asmegir (aws-may-gir) [godmaker] Potential god: the human soul
Asynja (aw-sin-ya) [goddess, f. of Ase] Active deity
Asynjor (aw-sin-yore) [pl. of Asynja, f. of Aesir] Goddesses
Audhumla (a-ood-hum-la) [mythic cow] Symbol of fertility
Balder (bahl-der) An Ase: the sun-god
Bargalmer, Bergelmir (bare-yell-meer) [a titan] Fruitage of a universal lifetime
Barre (bar-reh) [barr pine needle] The sacred grove of peace. Snorri speaks of the ash as having barr, having never seen a tree. There were none in Iceland.
Bele's bane (bay-leh) The sword of Frey
Bifrost, Bafrast, Bilrast (bee-frost, bayv-rast, beel-rast) The rainbow bridge between men and gods
Bilskirner (beel-sheer-ner) [flashing, shining] Valhalla's shelf
Bleknabb (blayk-neb) [pale beak] Eagle, the giant Rasvalg
Bodvild (beud-vild) Daughter of King Nidud
Brage, Bragi (brah-geh) An Ase: poetic inspiration, wisdom
Brimer (bree-mer) [ocean surf] An aspect of Ager. See Ymer
Brisingamen (bree-sing-a-mayn) [brising fire + men jewel] Freya's gem, human intelligence
Brock A dwarf: the mineral kingdom
Budlung (bood-lung) A king (poetic)
Bur (boo-r) [birth?] Space, first emanation of Burl
Buri (boo-ree) Frozen, unmanifest, abstract Space. Traditionally King Buri or Bore personifies winter
Byleist (bee-layst) [wildfire] The destructive side of Loki, mind
Draupnir (drawp-neer) [dripper] Odin's magic ring: proliferating cycles
Dvalin (dvah-leen) [comatose] The human, unawakened soul; Dvalin's toy, the solar disk
Dwarfs Souls less than human in evolutionary status
Edda [great-grandmother] Matrix of human wisdom
Egil (ay-gil) An early humanity, the age of innocence
Eldrimner [eld fire + rimner computation, calendar] One of the boars that feed the One-harriers
Elf [channel] The human soul between spirit and dwarf in man
Eli-vigor (ay-lee-vaw-goor) [icicle-waves] Cold streams of matter
Elohim (ello-heem) [gods, Hebrew pl.] Deity as an aggregate of many infinite forces
Fenja (fen-vah) [fen water] One of the giantesses who turn the magic mill Grotte
Fenris, Fenrer Loki's son, werewolf which will devour the sun
Fimbultyr (fim-bul-teer) [fimbul mighty, great + tyr god] The highest divinity, the god of secret wisdom
Fjolsvinn (fyeul-svinn) [fjol very + svinn wise] Odin as instructor and initiator
Flyting [Eng. dial.] Dispute in verse, personal abuse
Fohat [Tib.] Electromagnetic radiation
Forsete (for-set-eh) An Ase: justice, karma
Freke (fray-keh) [gluttony] One of Odin's wolfhounds
Frey (fray) An Ase: planetary spirit of earth; valor
Freya (fray-a) An Asynja: planetary spirit of Venus, protectress of humanity
Frigga [AS frigu love] An Asynja: Odin's consort
Frode (froo-deh) [frodr wise] A legendary king
Frodefrid (froo-deh-freed) [frodr wise + frid peace] Age of peace and wisdom: the golden age
Frost Giant Age of non-life between active lives of a cosmos
Gagnrad (gang-n-rawd) [gagn gainful + rad counsel] Odin in Vaftrudnismal
Galder (gahl-der) Incantation
Ganglare (gong-lay-re) [gang wandering + lare learner] King Gylfe seeking wisdom
Garm The hound that guards the gate of Hel, queen of death
Geirrod (gay-reud) [geir spear + rod red] An early humanity
Gerd (yayrd) A giantess: spouse of Frey
Gere (yay-reh) [greed] One of Odin's wolfhounds
Giant, Giantess Matter vivified by divinity
Gimle (gim-leh) [heavenly abode] A superior shelf of existence
Ginnungagap (yinn-ung-a-gahp) [ginn the void + unge offspring + gap chasm] The mystery of Nonbeing
Gladsheim (glahds-haym) [gladhome] Location of Valhalla
Grimner [disguised] Odin as teacher of the younger Agnar
Groa (groo-a) [growth] A sibyl: the evolutionary past leading up to the present
Grotte (grott-eh) [growth] Magic mill of change, creation, destruction: evolution
Gudasaga (goo-dah-sah-ga) [gud god + saga spell] A divine tale given orally, a god-spell or gospel
Gullveig (gull-vayg) [guld gold + veig drink or thirst] The soul's yearning for wisdom
Gunnlod (gun-leud) Giantess who served mead to Odin in the mountain
Gylfe (yil-veh) A legendary king and seeker of wisdom
Gymer (yi-mayr) A giant: father of Gerd
Hamingja (ha-ming-ya) [fortune] Guardian spirit
Havamal (haw-va-maw) [har high + mal speech] Lay of the High One
Heid (hayd) [heid bright sky] A vala or sibyl: nature's memory of the past
Heidrun (hayd-run) [heidr heath or honor] The goat that nibbles the bark of the Tree of Life
Heimdal (haym-dahl) [heim home + dal dell] "The whitest Ase." Celestial guardian of Bifrost
Hel (hayl) [death] The daughter of Loki, ruler of the kingdom of the dead. She is represented as half blue, half white
Hel's road The path from birth toward death
Hermod (hayr-mood) [herr a host + modr wrath, mood] An Ase: a son of Odin
Hoder (heu-der) [hod war, slaughter] An Ase: blind god of darkness and ignorance; brother of Balder
Honer (heu-ner) One of the creative trinity; the watery principle
Hostage A Vana god among the Aesir: an avatara from a higher to a lower world
Hugin (hoog-in) [hug mind] One of Odin's two ravens
Hvergalmer (vayr-yell-mer) [hverr caldron] Source of the rivers of lives. It rises in Niflheim and waters one root of the Tree of Life
Hymer (hee-mer) The first titan of a life cycle. See Rymer
Idun (ee-dun) An Asynja: "the fruitful spirit" who feeds the gods the apples of immortality; foul of the earth. She is the wife of Brage, poetic inspiration
Ifing (ee-ving) [ef or if doubt] River that separates men from gods
Iormungandr (yer-mung-andr) [jormun immense + andr breath] An offspring of Loki: the Midgard serpent. (May be the equator, the plane of the ecliptic, or the Milky Way)
Ivalde (ee-vahl-deh) A giant: the previous imbodiment of earth
Jarnsaxa (yern-sax-ah) [jarn iron + sax a short sword] An age: mother of Thor's son Magne. On earth the Iron Age, in space one of Heimdal's nine mothers
Kenning A descriptive epithet used in lieu of a name
Kvasir (kvah-seer) A hostage given to the Aesir by the Varier, and whose blood is epic poetry
Li and Laeti (law, lay-tee) Genetic bloodline and distinctive character or appearance
Lidskjalf (leed-shelv) [hlid aligning with, or lid suffering + skjalf shelf] The plane of aid or compassion
Lif and Lifthrasir (leev, leev-trah-seer) [life and survival] Immortal principles
Lin (leen) [lin flax] Frigga, Odin's consort
Loddfafner (lodd-fawv-ner) A dwarf: a learning human soul
Lodur (loo-dur) One of the creative trinity; the fiery principle
Lofar (loo-vahr) [lof hand or praise] Highest member of animal kingdom
Logi (loo-gee) [log flame] Wildfire, the uninspired mind
Lokabrenna [brenna burning] A name for Sirius
Lokasenna [senna banter] Loki's Flyting
Loki [lokka entice, logi light] An Ase of giant stock: the enlightener, dual mind
Lopt [lofty] Aspiring mind
Lorride (lor-ree-deh) Thor as electric power on earth
Magne (mang-neh) [godly power: gravitation?] One of Thor's sons in cosmic space
Mead Drink of the gods: experience of life.
Menglad [men jewel + glad happy] Freya whose jewel is humanity
Menja (men-yah) [men jewel] One of the two giantesses who turn the mill Grotte
Midgard (mid-gawrd) [mid middle + gard court] Our physical planet
Mimameid (mee-mah-mayd) [mima of Mimer + meid tree] The tree of Mimer, owner of the spring of experience
Mimer (mee-mer) [the nine-layered sky] A giant: owner of the well of wisdom from which Odin drinks daily: matter
Mjolnir (myeul-neer) [miller] Thor's hammer of creation and destruction
Mjotudr (myeut-oodr) [mjot measure + udr exhausting] The Tree of Life in its dying phase
Mjotvidr (myeut-veedr) [mjot measure + vid increasing] The Tree of Life in its growing phase
Mode (moo-deh) [godly wrath: radiation?] One of Thor's son in cosmic space
Mundilfore (mun-dill-feu-reh) [akin to mondull handle + fore to fare, move] A giant, father of sun and moon: the "lever" or "axis" that turns the "wheels" in space
Munin (moo-nin) [mind, love, memory] One of Odin's two ravens
Muspellsheim (muss-pells-haym) [muspell fire + heim home] A cosmic principle. See Niflheim
Mysing (mee-sing) A sea-king who conquered Frode
Nagelfar (nahg-el-fahr) [nagel nail + far travel] The ship of death, built of dead men's nails
Nanna Soul of the moon, who died of sorrow when her husband Balder was killed. Predecessor of Idun
Nidhogg (need-heugg) [nid beneath + hogg biter] Serpent undermining Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life
Nidud (nee-dud) [nid beneath, evil] A legendary king: the most material age of earth.
Niflheim (nee-vel-haym) [nifl cloud, nebula + heim home] A cosmic principle. See Muspellsheim
Niflhel (nee-vel-hayl) [nifl cloud, nebula + hel death] Extinction of matter
Niflungar (nee-vel-ung-ahr) [nifl mist + ungar children] An early human race that was still formless, nebulous
Nikar (nee-kahr) [ladler] Odin as bringer of misfortune
Njord (nyeurd) A Vanagod: the regent of Saturn, father of Frey and Freya
Norns [norn weird, doom] Spinners of destiny for gods, worlds, and men
Od, Odr (ood, ood-r) [odr wit, intelligence] The higher human soul, spiritually inspired
Od's maid (Freya) The hamingja or higher self of man
Odin [odr intelligence, wisdom] Allfather: the divine principle in all levels of universal life. Consciousness
Odraerir (ood-reur-er) [od wisdom + raerir rearer] Inspirer of divine wisdom
Ofner (ohv-ner) [opener] Odin at the beginning of a cycle
Okolner (oo-kol-ner) [unfreezing] The "waters" of space
One-harrier Odin's warrior; one who has conquered himself
Orgalmer (eur-yell-mer) [or original] First vibration: the big bang. See Ymer
Ragnarok (rang-na-reuk) [ragna rulers + rok ground] When the ruling deities withdraw to their ground; end of a world's lifetime
Ratatosk (rah-tah-tosk) [rate travel + tosk tusk] Squirrel in the Tree of Life: consciousness
Rate (rah-teh) [a drill] Bored through matter for Odin
Rig (reeg) [descent, involvement] Divine awakening of human mind
Rimgrimner [rim rime + grimner mask] A thurse, giant: cold, utter matter
Rind (rhymes with sinned) Earth in winter or in sleep
Rodung (reud-ung) [rod red + ung child] Father of the early races Agnar and Geirrod in Grimnismal
Ropt, Roptatyr (rop-tah-teer) [ropt maligned + tyr god] Odin as bringer of trials to the soul; the initiator, hierophant
Roskva (reuss-kvah) [vigor] Daughter of Egil and servant of Thor
Runes Wisdom gained by living
Rungner (rung-ner) [loud roar] A giant
Rymer (ree-mer) A giant: end of a life cycle. See Hymer
Saga Spoken or recited instruction in the guise of a story
Sarimner (say-rim-ner) [sar sea + rimner computation, calendar] One of the boars that feed the One-harriers
Sejd (sayd) Prophecy
Sif (seev) [sif affinity, the sanctity of marriage] An Asynja: Thor's wife. Her golden hair is the harvest
Sigyn (seeg-in) Loki's wife
Sindre (sin-dreh) [dross] A dwarf: the vegetable kingdom
Sinmara (sin-mah-ra) Hag who guards the caldron of matter, experience in the underworld
Skade (skah-deh) Sister-wife of Njord, daughter of the giant Tjasse
Skald Bard
Skaldemjod (skal-deh-myeud) [skald poet + mjod mead] Inspiration
Skidbladnir (sheed-blahd-neer) [skid slat + blad leaf] Ship created by dwarfs for Frey. The planet earth
Skirner (sheer-ner) [radiance] Ray of the god Frey, an emissary to the giant world
Sleipnir (slayp-neer) [slider] Odin's eight-legged steed
Surt [fire] Destroyer of worlds; kenning also for Sinmara's drink
Suttung A giant, keeper of the divine mead of wisdom and poetry
Svadilfare (svah-dil-fahreh) [svad slippery + fare travel] A mythical steed, father of Odin's eightlegged Sleipnir
Svafner (svahv-ner) [closer] Odin at the end of a cycle
Svipdag (sveep-dahg) [svip flash + dag day] The successful initiant
Svitjod (sveet-yod) [the cold, the great] Sweden Tables Stars and planets whereat the Aesir feast
Thor [thorr, thonor, thur thunder, consecrator, guileless power] An Ase: god of power, life force, electricity, and of the planet Jupiter. Also called Trudgalmer, Vior, Lorride in different applications
Thurse [dull, stupid] Uninspired matter giant
Ting, Thing [costly articles, inventory] Parliament
Tjalfe (chal-veh) [speed] Son of Egil and servant of Thor
Tjasse (chass-eh) A giant: an earlier life period
Tjodvitner (chod-veet-ner) [tjod tether + vitner witness] Fenris; wolf that fishes for the souls of men
Tomte (tom-teh) [tom empty] Nature sprite, helpful
Troll Nature sprite, mischievous
Trudgalmer (trood-yell-mer) Cosmic Thor
Trym (trim) [noise, battle] A giant: our physical planet Earth
Tund [tinder] A river: time
Tyr (teer) [Ase, god] A divine power, also the regent of Mars. Tyr sacrificed his hand to help bind Fenris
Ull An Ase: the god of a highly spiritual, unmanifest world
Vac or Vach (vahch) [Skt. voice, speech] Hindu first sound. See also Audhumla
Vaftrudnir (vahv-trood-ner) [vaf wrap, weave + thrudr doughty] The weaver of strong webs (of illusion)
Vagtam (vayg-tahm) [vag way + tam wont] Pilgrim
Vala, volva (vah-la, veul-va) [sibyl, prophetess] Indelible record of cosmic life
Vale (vah-leh) A son of Odin
Valhalla [val choice or slain + hall hall] Odin's hall where One-harriers celebrate
Valkyries [val choice or slain + kyrja chooser] Odin's agents
Van, Vanagod, Vanagiant (vahn-a-) Gods superior to the Aesir; unmanifest deities and corresponding giants
Ve, Vi (vay, vee) [awe] Cosmic prototype of Honer
Vidar (vee-dahr) A son of Odin, successor of Balder
Vidofner (veed-awv-ner) [wide opener] Cock in the crown of the Tree of Life
Vigridsslatten (vee-grids-slett-en) [viga consecrate + slatt plain] The battlefield of life
Vile (vee-leh) [will] Cosmic prototype of Lodur
Vingner, Vingthor [winged Thor] Epithets for Thor
Vior (vee-or) Thor as vital force in beings
Volsungar (veul-s-ungar) [volsi phallus + ungr children] Early bisexual humanity
Volund (veu-lund) Name of a mythic Smith and skillful artisan. The soul of the fourth humanity
Voluspa (veu-luss-paw) [vala sibyl + spa to prophesy] Principal lay of the elder Edda
Yggdrasil (ig-dra-seel) [Odin's steed, Odin's gallows] The Tree of Life
Ymer (ee-mer) [frost giant] Orgalmer