Unlike the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam), Norse Paganism is a polytheistic religion – in other words, followers believe in multiple gods and goddesses. These gods exhibit what we might recognise as human traits. The gods argue, make errors and have flawed personalities, ju...
The Old Norse language was transmitted throughout Europe and the British Isles by Northern Germanicvikinginvaders and via trade and exploration in early European history. Over time, Old Norseloanwordsbecame incorporated into Old English, and some remain in the modern English we use today. Each year...
Nordic Rune Meanings Like our own familiar alphabet, therunes symbolize sounds, that can be used to spell out different words. They were used in this way for mundane notes and records as required. But each rune also had a philosophical and magical significance. Below is a list of the names...
and they were expert seafarers. In much of the ancient Norse remains, we find ships etched upon stone and even bits of nautical remnants in burial grounds. The sea was something that rendered symbolic meanings offreedom, exploration and opportunity...
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Name Meanings Even a brief look through a list of Old Norse names reveals that the majority contain one or more name-elements which are identical to ordinary nouns and adjectives in Old Norse. While certainly people were aware of the meanings of these words which continued being used in the ...
Heimdallr had a mixture of meanings, and some of them might have been “radiant,”“world,” or “eminent.” Altogether, his name might have meant something like “radiant world” or maybe even “the one who illuminates the world.”He also had three other names: Gullintanni: this means ...
The meanings ascribed to the letters of the futhark are no more than mnemonics, similar to ”A’ for ‘apple’, ‘B’ for ‘banana”, etc. The rune poems do it, well, a bit better, a bit more memorably, with a little story for each letter. People had more time in those days. ...
Therune-namesof the Younger Futhark are given below, each with a verse from the Icelandic Rune Poem (15th century) that explains theirmeanings. The translation is by B. Dickins (published in 1915). Images and charts above are copyright © The Viking Rune...
Ríta, on the other hand, which also means “to carve”, is the main term used for book writing and in translated literature often corresponds to the Latin scribere. Etymologically related to scribere is the Old Norse verb skrífa, which has a broad range of meanings such as “to ...