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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Surtur
In the Icelandic Eddas Surtur (Old Norse Surtr) is the leader of the fire giants in the south, the ruler of Muspel, the realm of fire.
This is the approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century.
Surtur is the being who cleanses Asgard with fire after all the gods have fallen in battle at Ragnarok, the periodic destruction of Asgard.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Surtur   (718 words)

  
 A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-24)
“Muspel” is the name for a mysterious world that alone seems real, but which no one has seen.
The mysterious light of Muspel shines on the faces and reveals the ugly mask of Crystalman.
At the end of the novel, the reader ascends the tower of Muspel, and sees the world from a standpoint uncontaminated by human conditioning.
www.scifidimensions.com /Nov03/arcturus.htm   (1034 words)

  
 Northvegr - Prose Edda - Anderson Trans.
The Midgard-serpent vomits forth venom, defiling all the air and the sea; he is very terrible, and places himself by the side of the wolf.
In the midst of this clash and din the heavens are rent in twain, and the sons of Muspel come riding through the opening.
The sons of Muspel direct their course to the plain which is called Vigrid.
www.northvegr.org /lore/prose2/016.php   (879 words)

  
  A Voyage to Arcturus - Chapter XXI
The sweet smell emanating from it was strong, loathsome, and terrible; it seemed to spring from a sort of loose, mocking slime inexpressibly vulgar and ignorant.
Muspel was no all-powerful Universe, tolerating from pure indifference the existence side by side with it of another false world, which had no right to be.
Muspel was fighting for its life - against all that is most shameful and frightful - against sin masquerading as eternal beauty, against baseness masquerading as Nature, against the Devil masquerading as God....
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/sciencefiction/AVoyagetoArcturus/chap21.html   (2886 words)

  
 Viktor Rydberg — Teutonic Mythology — Volume II, Part IV, Chapters 78—93
The answer is that the one statement cannot be harmonised with the other, and the question then arises as to which of the two authorities is the authentic one, the heathen poem Völuspa or Gylfaginning, produced in the thirteenth century by a man who had a vague conception of the mythology of our ancestors.
Muspel’s sons accompany the liberated Loke from his rocky isle, and are with him on board Nagelfar.
A closer examination ought to have shown that Gylfaginning’s conception of “Muspel’s sons” is immensely at variance with the mythical.
www.vaidilute.com /books/norroena/rydberg-08.html   (16938 words)

  
  A Voyage to Arcturus (Chapter 21)
Their action produced the marching rhythm he had previously felt, but this rhythm was not intrinsic in the corpuscles themselves, but was a consequence of the obstruction they met with.
The sweet smell emanating from it was strong, loathsome, and terrible; it seemed to spring from a sort of loose, mocking slime inexpressibly vulgar and ignorant.
Muspel was no all-powerful Universe, tolerating from pure indifference the existence side by side with it of another false world, which had no right to be.
www.for68.com /new/2006/9/ga4758384021119600218528-0.htm   (2913 words)

  
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Cowering in fear of the Devastator death-god, the simple folk of the desert planet Muspel worship a prophet who fell from the sky.
The Devastator's power is merely the side-effect of a terraforming project by Muspel's sister-planet Midgard.
And the four horsemen of the apocalypse are a Viking on vacation, a Scot with a lumpy chip on his shoulder, a small white furry thing...
www.play.com /Books/AudioBooks/4-/877128/Strontium_Dog_Fire_From_Heaven/Product.html   (711 words)

  
 Muspelheim - Wikipedia Mirror
Muspelheim ("Flameland"), also called Muspel (Old Norse Múspellsheimr and Múspell, respectively), is the realm of fire in Norse Mythology.
In the midst of this clash and din the heavens are rent in twain, and the sons of Muspel come riding through the opening.
The sons of Muspel direct their course to the plain which is called Vigrid....
www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Muspelheim   (252 words)

  
 Asgard and the Gods
Then the king pointed towards the south, where the sons of Muspel were moving about in the fiery heat like flashes of lightning, and where the dark giant Surtur was pointing his flaming sword up at the heavenly palaces.
The idea of the destructive power of fire was equally connected with the giant Muspel, but he never showed himself as an active agent of harm.
Their leader, however, was not Muspel, but dark Surtur (fl smoke), out of which flashed a tongue of flame, like a shining sword.
bulfinch.englishatheist.org /b/asgard/asgard-04.html   (1664 words)

  
 Welcome to the Vanguard Bandits Shrine!
Start by advancing forward, but not too forward; you want to be in the position that assures the Muspels can't gang-tackle you.
Luckily, the Muspels attack in waves; the first wave will attack, and a while later into the battle, the second will start moving.
The Muspel soldiers that you hadn't slain will most likely hit you from behind, but it's much worse to be hit by Ganlon than the relatively weak first wave.
www.rpgclassics.com /shrines/psx/vanguard/miss11.shtml   (520 words)

  
 Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel eBook
Still, however strong it is, it will break when the sons of Muspel come to ride over it, and then they will have to swim their horses over great rivers in order to get on.’”
Muspel is the blazing South, the land of fire, of the convulsions that accompanied the comet.
Muspel here means, I repeat, the heat of the South.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/5109/211.html   (554 words)

  
 The Rökkr: Surt
Muspelheim is the realm of creation and destruction, out of which emerged the sparks that were set in the sky as the stars, and two fire-disks that were harnessed to a twin set of chariots and travelled across the sky as sun and moon.
Surt and his many children, the sons of Muspel, were in a constant state of tension with the Æsir gods.
In this way, Odin spills the blood of the goddess, and the result is what occurs on the field of Vigrid in the battle of Ragnarok, where the children of Muspel enact the mother-curse upon him.
shadowlight.gydja.com /surt.html   (2195 words)

  
 The World Serpent
Muspel travelled like a comet because it was built onto the back of one; massive enough to hold a thin atmosphere.
The hologram of Muspel still floated in the centre of the room, but two more people had joined the briefing today; a slender, athletic young woman, and a wiry man, both apparently in their twenties, and both oriental.
She should sleep, but the endless twilight of Muspel had thrown her sleeping patterns, and she was too anxious to sleep besides.
www.gateworld.net /fanfic/archive/1/theworld.html   (20101 words)

  
 Surt
In Norse mythology, Surt was a giant who ruled Muspel, the realm of fire and was married to Sinmore.
He had a fiery sword which shined more brightly than the sun.
He will kill the unarmed god Freyr as well.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/su/Surt.html   (62 words)

  
 GIANTS
He came into being when the heat of Muspell met the icy cold of Niflheim in a place known as Gunnthra.
He was formed by drips of moisture from the melting of the frost in Gunnthra.
His head was cut off by the Vanir Gods when he went to stay with them after the war between the Vanir and the Aesir.
www.angelfire.com /crazy/susannah/giants.htm   (736 words)

  
 NJ.com's Printer-Friendly Page
The Knight of the title is Sir Able of the High Heart, who begins the tale as a young American boy.
While out hiking in the woods, he comes across an odd tree, cuts a branch from it, and ends up in Mythgarthr, the middle of seven worlds (above Niflheim, Muspel, and Aelfrice, below Skai, Kleos, and Elysion).
In fairly short order, he acquires a new name, a brother, and a new adult body.
www.nj.com /weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_bookreviews/archives/print022373.html   (353 words)

  
 Therion lyrics - Muspelheim
The ultimate heat from the world of Muspel will very soon burn the world and turn it into ashes.
The firegiant Surt rides with his hords to meet the gods in the final battle of Ragnarok.
Muspel oppnar sig Surt som I syd med oraget svard kallar pa Muspels soner, kommer till kamp pa Vigrid slatt; da hjalper inga boner.
www.lyricsbox.com /therion-lyrics-muspelheim-7pwfzh5.html   (176 words)

  
 Therion — Secrets of the Runes — Lyrics
The heat of Muspel and the ice of Nifel made the essence of life come forth from the void.
The first living being, The Giant Ymer, was born out of darkness and he is the ancestor of the creatures of the universe.
When the heat of Muspel turn the ice of Nifel into a stream of water, the creation begins to take place.
www.vaidilute.com /music-lyrics-therion.html   (1348 words)

  
 Muspelheim at AllExperts
Muspelheim ("Flameland"), also called Muspel (Old Norse Múspellsheimr and Múspell, respectively), is the realm of fire in Norse Mythology.
It is home to the fire giants, and their master, Surtr.
In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, a dungeon named The Molten Core bears many similarities to the myth of Muspelheim.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/mu/muspelheim.htm   (257 words)

  
 Strontium Dog - Fire from Heaven
Cowering in fear of the Devastator death-god, the simple folk of the desert planet Muspel worship a prophet who fell from the sky.
The Devastator's power is merely the side-effect of a terraforming project by Muspel's sister-planet Midgard.
And the four horsemen of the apocalypse are a Viking on vacation, a Scot with a lumpy chip on his shoulder, a small white furry thing… and Johnny Alpha.
www.timeschampion.com /2000AD/2000AD010_FirefromHeaven.htm   (254 words)

  
 A Voyage to Arcturus eBook
Millions upon millions of grotesque, vulgar, ridiculous, sweetened individuals—­once Spirit—­were calling out from their degradation and agony for salvation from Muspel....
Muspel was fighting for its life—­ against all that is most shameful and frightful—­against sin masquerading as eternal beauty, against baseness masquerading as Nature, against the Devil masquerading as God....
The moral combat was no mock one, no Valhalla, where warriors are cut to pieces by day and feast by night; but a grim death struggle in which what is worse than death—­namely, spiritual death—­inevitably awaited the vanquished of Muspel....
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/1329/184.html   (393 words)

  
 Science Fiction and Gnosticism
He steals the green sparks of vital spiritual fire of Muspel, domain of Surtur, the true God, and "crystallizes" them into living forms.
There he gains a vision of Crystalman as a shadowy body who feeds on Muspel fire, trapping it in life forms that are driven to strive painfully for pleasure.
Nightspore realizes that the entire created cosmos is Crystalman's, and Muspel is nowhere else but in himself, in the spark of green Muspellight that is his very being.
www.quantumcosmos.com /sfgnosticism.htm   (3712 words)

  
 Chibinite got their homepage at Neopets.com
They were divided into two clans, the Muspel (Fire) and the Nilf (Ice).
The Muspel dwelt in a volcanic region known as Muspelheim and the Nilf lived in the arctic region of Niflheim.
The grandest city in the Asgardian Kingdom was known as Midgard, a land that lay between the two areas of Niflheim and Muspelheim, and near Vanaheim and Yggdrasil.
petpages.neopets.com /~Chibinite   (2716 words)

  
 Strontium Dog - Fire From Heaven
Cowering in fear of the Devastator death-god, the simple folk of the desert planet Muspel worship a prophet who fell from the sky.
The Devastator's power is merely the side-effect of a terraforming project by Muspel's sister-planet Midgard.
And the four horsemen of the apocalypse are a Viking on vacation, a Scot with a lumpy chip on his shoulder, a small white furry thing… and Johnny Alpha.
www.muramasaindustries.com /fiction/strontiumdog/firefromheaven/firefromheaven.html   (194 words)

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