but Loki just didn't know when to stop pressing his luck. He went to another set of dwarves and bet that there was no way they could create anything as awesome as those dwarves who made the hair. He even bet these dwarveshis own headthat they couldn't do it. Of course, the dwarves...
10.Leave your calendar on the day marked Friday the 13th You might end up with tons of bad luck.According to legend,the Norse goddess Frey (Friday) came down to Earth and gave a coven of witches her cat.Covens usually gather in groups of 12,but the addition of Frey's cat made the...
Thus it was thought that a compound name composed of two name-elements gave luck and long life, especially those compounded with the names of gods, and that people who had such compound names would have langlifis ok heilla, "long life and health", and it was also thought that if ...
We also do not know if Ullr had a wife or children. Again, some suggest that he may have been linked with Skadi, the giantess who was associated with winter and the hunt. But the German version of Ullr, Holler, was married to the goddess Holda, a wife and matriarch goddess that more...
Among the most well-known of these symbols wereVegvísir, which was inscribed on ships in order to ensure that they could find their way home. It had a meaning similar to ‘wayfinder’ and was also worn as a talisman of luck and protection. ...
When Odin was asked about the lack of luck he replied, “the grey wolf watches the halls of the gods.” The only policy Odin could adopt under the constant threat of Ragnarok, the doom of the gods, was to gather the heroic warriors slain in battle, to Valhalla. For the final battle ...
the goddess of love and plenty, were prominent figures, and often trod the earth; the three Norns or Fates, who sway the wierds of men, and spin their destinies at Mimirs’ well of knowledge, were awful venerable powers, to whom the heathen world looked up with love and adoration and ...
There is nothing perhaps, more characteristic of a true, as compared with a false religion, than the restlessness of the one when brought face to face with the quiet dignity and majesty of the other. Under the Christian dispensation, our blessed Lord, his awful sacrifice once performed, “as...
英语翻译10.Leave your calendar on the day marked Friday the 13th You might end up with tons of bad luck.According to legend,the Norse goddess Frey (Friday) came down to Earth and gave a coven of witches her cat.Covens usually gather in groups of
Bamboo appears in many Chinese stones as a symbol of long life. This silk painting shows seven sages in a bamboo grove. mistletoe in a house brings good luck. In Norse* mythology, mistletoe was sacred to the beloved god Balder, but the evil god Loki used trickery to kill Balder with a...