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	Norse mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norse or Scandinavian mythology refers to the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled.
		Norse mythology was a collection of beliefs and stories shared by Northern Germanic tribes.
		Norse mythology also influenced Richard Wagner's use of literary themes from it to compose the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norse_mythology (4626 words)

	Hurstwic: Norse Literature
		Norse people must have loved stories, and some of the stories and poems they and their descendants wrote about themselves still survive.
		Old Norse is the root language from which the modern Scandinavian languages descended, and is a close relative of modern English, Dutch, and German.
		Norse poetry does not have the regular rhythm and end-rhyme that one conventionally associates with poetry, but rather uses alliteration and irregular stress which falls on the most significant words in each line.
	www.hurstwic.org /history/articles/literature/text/literature.htm (3793 words)

	Lilia BlackBear's Norse Mythology Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The unique thing about the Norse was that women had just as much right to ask for a divorce as men did which was highly unusual during that time in the rest of the world.
		Norse simply refers to the peoples whom originated in Scandinavia and worshipped a set of gods called the Aesir and the Vanir.
		The Norse believed a great prophecy that the wolves that chase the sun and moon will someday gobble them up. Fenrir the wolf will be released and gobble up Valhalla. A great war between the gods will then follow in which all of the gods except for a few will die.
	www.jackowitch.com /norsemythology1.html (1986 words)

	Norse Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Norse legends and myths about ancient heroes, gods, and the creation and destruction of the universe developed out of the original common mythology of the Germanic peoples and constitute the primary source of knowledge about ancient German mythology.
		Because Norse mythology was transmitted and altered by medieval Christian historians, the original pagan religious beliefs, attitudes, and practices cannot be determined with certainty.
		Besides Odin, the major deities of Norse mythology were his wife, Frigg, goddess of the home; Thor, god of thunder, who protected humans and the other gods from the giants and who was especially popular among the Norse peasantry; Frey, a god of prosperity; and Freya, sister of Frey, a fertility goddess.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/8991/scanda.html (2112 words)

	Welcome to Lustria: Cities of Gold!
		All Norse warriors are trained in the art of war at a very young age and become skilled in the use of the sword, axe, and shield for theirs is a brutal society where only the strongest survive.
		The Norse plague the coast of Lustria raiding many coastal settlements but it is their desire for riches and saga that have driven them further inland to pillage the temples of the Slann.
		Norse are human, albeit rather nasty and ferocious but human all the same and so will use the human maximum characteristics from page 121 of the Mordheim rulebook.
	www.icirclegames.com /lustria/warbands_norse_warband.html (1284 words)

	ASATRU (Norse Heathenism)
		Its followers have maintained it as closely as possible to the original religion of the Norse people.
		Many people are exposed to the name "Asatru" through role playing games, such as Mage: The Ascension.
		This was not seen as a bribe or as a method of capturing the power of the dying animal.
	www.religioustolerance.org /asatru.htm (1969 words)

	Norse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Most Norse warriors are very experienced as the Norse use fighting to solve most of their problems.
		According to the Norse religion, brave warriors who die in combat are sent to Valhalla, which is the equivalent to heaven for the Norse.
		The Norse are very difficult to make flee as their goal in life is to die in battle.
	website.lineone.net /~lonefox/norse1.htm (1879 words)

	Norse Odin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His people also were accustomed, whenever they fell into danger by land or sea, to call upon his name; and they thought that always they got comfort and aid by it, for where he was they thought help was near.
		The people of Asaland sent a man called Hone, whom they thought well suited to be a chief, as he was a stout and very handsome man; and with him they sent a man of great understanding called Mime.
		Njord's daughter Freya was priestess of the sacrifices, and first taught the Asaland people the magic art, as it was in use and fashion among the Vanaland people.
	oaks.nvg.org /an6ra3.html (6393 words)

	Matthew Yglesias: Mmm...Fish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		People moved their camps and villages more frequently, and, in many areas, the old sod and whalebone winter house was abandoned in favour of houses made of blocks of snow.
		I'm not familiar with the geography of the Norse Greenland settlements and the Inuit.
		that it was overtaxation by the Norse crown,
	yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2004/12/mmmfish.html (9094 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Norse society was divided into three classes (slaves, freedmen, and chieftains) and was closer to a classical Greek democracy than the feudal system which had taken root on the continent.
		The Norse in Ireland were assimilated into the Irish culture and the Norman's in Normandy were absorbed by the French.
		The people of Scandinavia are alternately called many things such as Scandinavians, Norse, Northmen, Vikings, etc. The name "Viking" was given to them by some of their enemies and is what we commonly call them today.
	users.aristotle.net /~aron/vw.htm (6335 words)

	Norse Magic
		If you are interested in practicing Norse Wicca, you''ll learn about the three-fold goddess and the god, as well as how to celebrate the holidays, all from the perspective of Norse Paganism.
		The Norse pagans were one of the last European societies to convert to Christianity, but their pagan mythology and magic survived and continues to thrive.
		Norse Magic is your key to the study and practice this powerful and ancient spiritual system.
	www.llewellyn.com /trade/preview_book.php?pn=L137 (252 words)

	Echoed Voices: Mead of Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The beet, on the other hand, was only being used by the IE people in the context of either a green to eat or as a medicinal plant.
		The beet was not cultivated by the early IE people.
		These Slavic peoples had not only found a different variety of beet, but also learned how to use the beet root as a food, how to plant, propagate and harvest it, and how to make a form of alcohol from the juice of this beet and they named it kvas.
	www.echoedvoices.org /Oct2002/Mead_of_Poetry.html (1648 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Norse Mythology - A625619
		They all had their own story of the Creation, how people's lives were governed by these beings, and ethical rules.
		Norse mythology has also been an inspiration to people such as JRR Tolkien, Richard Wagner and more recently, Robin Jarvis.
		Yes, they did do all those things, but it has only been exaggerated by the people they attacked - the monasteries, who were the historians of their time.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A625619 (1927 words)

	Uppsala - Asatru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Asatru is the modern name given by some to the worship of the gods of the Norse people, who are popularly and somewhat inaccurately known as vikings.
		But eventually the people of Norway were forcibly converted, first by Olaf Tryggvason and then by that Olaf who was later titled Saint for his efforts at eradicating heathenism.
		This is the rebirth of our people, and what we do now, the rituals we write, the questions we answer will set the course of the troth for the rest of its span on the earth.
	www.winterscapes.com /uppsala/asatru.htm (10447 words)

	Mythic-Meeting™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Norse people always choose the war chief as their mightiest god, and in later records, Thor started to compete with Odin to become the major god.
		People’s spirit, I mean their mind, not their soul, is something abstract, it’s an opposite of matter.
		Ancient Norse people thought that this world is only snowy and full of fire (please refer to Han’s previous post), and the gods used their knowledge to bring life to this world.
	mythic-meeting.blogspot.com (9515 words)

	Dreamed of Which Pantheon - MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Pagan Forums
		People were all wound up in it, screaming and being bawdy.
		I have been reading up on the Norse Gods because of Anglo-Saxon roots but I can not relate to toes being stuck in skies and people being born out of Giant's armpits.
		the Norse were just as artisitc and creative as you saw the greeks and the greeks could be as equally bawdy and bloodthirsty as you saw the norse to be.
	www.mysticwicks.com /showthread.php?t=84559 (1202 words)

	Norse Holidays and Festivals
		In ancient times, Germanic and Norse children would leave their boots out by the hearth on Solstice Eve, filled with hay and sugar, for Sleipnir's journey.
		This is a festival of renewal, rejoicing and fertility, although for most of the Northern People, the forces of Winter are still at full sway.
		This festival corresponds roughly to the Celtic Samhain, and the modern American festival of Halloween, although the darker aspects of the festival are not as pronounced among the Norse people.
	www.wizardrealm.com /norse/holidays.html (1184 words)

	Irminsul Ættir - Poll #8 - Ritual garb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Norse capes were rectangular pieces of fabric fastened at the shoulder.
		I know I will offend people with this statement, but I feel that if people aren't willing to dress the part then they aren't putting their minds and hearts in the right place.
		The people of England are a little more individualistic in thier outlook, compared to thier American cousins across the pond.
	www.irminsul.org /ir/irpoll08.html (5890 words)

	The Myths of the Vikings
		Of course, the Norse myths are not really "true," but men and women believed in them for hundreds or thousands of years, and they helped shape the civilization our ancestors created and left to us.
		The Norse did have a written language that was carved into countless monuments, however it was probably not widely use by the public on a day-to-day basis.
		In the Norse sags women are treated with respect, chivalry, and have influence in decisions.
	www.heritagelost.org /main/vikings!.htm (2184 words)

	Norse Myths
		The Norse people lived from about A.D. 200 to 500 in northern and central Europe and Scandinavia.
		After A.D. 700, the Norse migrated in search of new lands, settling in parts of the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland and East into Russia.
		From this period on, the Norse are known as Vikings.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /cgi-bin/tour_def/mythology/norse.html (106 words)

	Gifts of the Vikings 12-28-02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was the custom of the Norse people of the far North of Europe to give everything they owned – their farms and cattle, basically -- to their eldest sons.
		Sometimes Norse women became great warriors, too[xiii] – and the stories of Viking Warrior-women leading beserking Viking warriors into battle completely outraged the early Christians and their own Roman-pagan culture inherited from the Roman Empire.
		Like the Norse before us, we chose to change our religion, we chose to find better ways to worship and celebrate life –no longer could we ignore the spirit of women and the idea that the Goddess could be a mother.
	www.revjm.com /Vikinggifts.htm (2691 words)

	[No title]
		These people were descendants of the earliest inhabitants of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic.
		However, the Norse settlers in Greenland were not the heavily armed Viking raiders of European legend, and local sources of iron were unknown.
		The pattern of northward movement during episodes of warmer climate is one aspect of the human settlement of northern latitudes.
	rutgerspress.rutgers.edu /Author/Hoffecker_Prehistory/excerpt.html (1532 words)

	FOR THE PEOPLE
		FOR THE PEOPLE is collaborating with Barrios Unidos to bring the F.L.Y. (Fresh Lifelines For Youth) Program to the San Lorenzo Valley.
		We use the indigenous culture of the Celts and Norse people to teach kids how all people were at one time tribal and nature based.
		The directors of FOR THE PEOPLE are David Beaudry and Linda Crouse.
	www.orgsites.com /ca/forthepeople (1035 words)

	The Great North in Danger ! - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With the lowest natural birthrate in the white world, coupled with large influxes of non-nordic peoples (mostly not even white!), throw in the extreme passivity of your elected officials and the end result may very well be the extinction of the Nordic people.
		It would not be far-fetched to say that it is possible in one hundred years for the Nordic to disappear into the swarthy creature of a mixed breed of Norse, arab, asiatic, slav and god knows what else.
		Many non-Nordic people are moving to and being born in Scandanavia.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=9427 (2457 words)

	Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the 1200's, the Norse people believed in a universe that had three levels: a heaven, an "Earth", and a hell.
		There are ten worlds in the Norse Universe, and they held many different people.
		The people of the world's include: elves, fertility gods, humans, dwarves, giants, and the dead.
	www.promotega.org /wga30025/Universe.html (109 words)

	Vikings from Roman Times to the raids, and their world exploration
		Tacitus described this people as already being fine warriors and "the style of there ships is unusual in that there is a prow at both ends".
		Throughout this period the Norse people continued their trading, with much success.
		Two colonies were established on Greenland, the Eastern Settlement, which grew to 3000 to 4000 people, and the Western Settlement which grew to about 1000 people.
	members.aol.com /robinsash/viking/viking.htm (1398 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Most of the people we think of as Vikings spoke the Old Norse language.
		For the sake of simplicity, we'll use the name in all our examples, but the other names are equally appropriate.
		You asked whether a Norse woman from your period with an Irish father would have been identified with a patronymic based on his name.
	www.panix.com /~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/1810.txt (462 words)

	Bilskirnir: The Thor Fan Listing - powered by PHPFanBase Version 1.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Known throughout Scandinavia and Germany by a variety of names - Thor, Thunar, Donner, Asa-Thor and others - Thor was one of the most beloved of the Gods.
		In addition to being the god of Thunder, Thor is the greatest foe of the Jotuns (giants), and the protector and defender of the common man. Amulets in the shape of his hammer, Mjollnir, were commonly worn by both the ancient Norse people and today's modern Heathens (who still worship the gods of old).
		As the god of Thunder, one of his jobs is to help ensure that the crops get the rain they need for a good harvest.
	thor.thunderhaven.net (467 words)

	Norse Myths
		The Norse people lived from about A.D. 200 to 500 in northern Europe and Scandinavia.
		After A.D. the Norse migrated in search of new lands, settling in parts of the British Isles, Iceland, Greenland and East into Russia.
		Last modified March 28, 1997 by the Windows Team
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/mythology/norse_culture.html (92 words)

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