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  02            Norse mythlogy
Tyr was possibly the son of Odin and Frigg or the giantess Fjörgyn (Fjorgyn), and younger of brother of Thor.
was the son of Sigi and grandson of Odin.
Atli was the son of Budli and brother of Brynhild and Bekkhild.
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 The Aesir & The Elves: The sons of Ivaldi
The Aesir and The Elves: The sons of Ivaldi
Because Ivaldi’s sons were not present to speak for themselves, their work figuratively spoke for them.
Thus the Sons of Ivaldi are half-giant and half-elf, while Idunn and her full-blooded siblings are pure elf.
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 The Primeval Age
Ivaldi's sons were brave warriors and skilled artists, who received training from Mimir himself in the secrets of the smith's art.
He is called the son of nine mothers, because the nine giantesses who work the world-mill brought him forth by their labor at the mill-handle, which consequently was the world’s first fire-auger.
His son Frey became the god of harvests, and his daughter, Freyja, the most beautiful of all the goddesses, became the goddess of love and fertility.
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 Norse Gods, Goddesses, Giants, Dwarves & Wights
Skoll and Hati are sons of the Giantess of Iron Wood and Fenrir-wolf.
Suttung, son of Gilling, got the Mead of Poetry from the Dwarves Fjalar and Galar when he was avenging the murder of his parents.
In other sources, he is the youngest of Odin's sons, by the Giantess Rind, and was born for the express purpose of avenging Balder's death since the Gods could not kill one of their own.
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 Norse and Germanic Deities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Son of Odin and Frigg and brother to Balder.
The son of Odin and a member of the Aesir, he was the god of thunder and the main enemy of the giants.
Son of Bor, brother of Vili and Odin.
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 Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary, Ia-Iz, Theosophical U Press
As a creative spirit, Ialdabaoth generates six sons (the lower terrestrial angels or stellar spirits) without assistance of any female, and when these sons strive with him he creates Ophiomorphos, the serpent-shaped spirit of all that is basest in matter.
Idas (Greek) In Greek mythology, brother of Lynceus, sons of Aphareus and Arene, and cousins of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollox.
Ivaldi seemingly represents the previous lifetime of our planetary consciousness which was imbodied in the moon when it was living before the earth was formed.
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 Ivaldi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Ivaldi, an early Teutonic deity, is also called Wade (or Vate), Keeper of the Ford, in Germanic and Anglo-Saxon myth.
The jotunson of a sea goddess, Ivaldi was a smith by trade.
Ivaldi and the Vatlings fell out of favor with the gods when they came in the possession of the much-coveted Kvasir's blood,the Mead of Poetry.
www.therfcc.org /ivaldi-149328.html   (150 words)

  
 Ivaldi | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Ivaldi, Ivalde (Icelandic, Scandinavian) [from i in, into + valdi power, wielder] Wielder of power, or entering into power; in the Norse Edda, a dwarf (a not-yet-human consciousness) and also a giant, meaning a period of material life.
Ivaldi seemingly represents the previous lifetime of our planetary consciousness which was imbodied in the moon when it was living before the earth was formed.
His children are Nanna (the lunar soul), and Idun (the terrestrial soul), while Hjuke and Bil are the children whose shadows are seen on the face of the full moon and who live on in the nursery rhyme of Jack and Jill.
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 Norse Gods and Goddesses - Crystalinks
Son of Odin and Frigg, he was loved by both gods and men and was considered to be the best of the gods.
Heimdall is the god of light, the son of nine mothers (variously given as the daughters of Geirrendour the Giant or of Aegir).
He was born at the end of the world and raised by the force of the earth, seawater and the blood of a boar.
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 Sons and Lovers - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sons and Lovers
The central character is Paul Morel, the artistic son of a stormy marriage between a coal miner and his sensitive and ambitious wife.
Sons of American Legion (auxilary of the American Legion)
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Wikipedia: Sif
Sif was not the mother of Magni, this was Thor's son with Jarnsaxa.
She has hair of gold which grows just like natural hair, made by the dwarves called "sons of Ivaldi" (Dvalin).
Loki cut off Sif's hair as a prank, but when Thor found this out he forced Loki to promise to have golden hair made by the dark elves.
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 Sons of Liberty - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sons of Liberty
Merchants, lawyers, farmers, artisans, and labourers joined what was an early instance of concerted resistance to British rule, causing the repeal of the act in March 1766.
The nest of Sons of Liberty that Driscoll landed in had not a sober bird in it; in fact there was probably not an entirely sober one in the auditorium.
Sons of Mary, Health of the Sick (religious order)
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 [Millennial Fair – Asgard Hill] Index of Names and Terms in Norse Mythology
Baldr was the son of Odin and Frigg, and brother to Hod.
He was the son of Njord and the twin brother of Freya.
The boar was given to him by the dwarves Brokk and Eiti, and the ship was made by the sons of Ivaldi when the dwarves were competing with each other.
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 Sif   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Sif was not the mother of Magni, this was Thor's son with Jarnsaxa.
She has hair of gold which grows just like natural hair, made by the dwarves called "sons of Ivaldi " (Dvalin).
Loki cut off Sif's hair as a prank, but when Thor found this out he forced Loki to promise to have golden hair made by the dark elves.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sif.html   (167 words)

  
 Idun Idunna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In Oðin's Korpgalder, an obscure work, she was said to be Ivaldi's daughter, and to have been named by the elves.
Ivaldi is mentioned only in reference to the dwarves that built Frea (Frey)'s ship elsewhere.
They are called "sons of Ivaldi." Existence of her worship outside of the Norse though is not found.
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 Ivaldi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He and his sons - the Vatlings - were responsible for creating many magical treasures for the Aesir, including the ship Skidbladnir.
Ivaldi's son Volund, the Anglo-Saxon Wayland, forged the Mistillteinn, the sword that cut the haft off of Thor's hammer, Mjollnir.
Ivaldi and the Vatlings fell out of favor with the gods when they came in the possession of the much-coveted Kvasir's blood, the Mead of Poetry.
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Son of Rodmar, whom he slew for gold in Otter's skin; in form of dragon, guarded gold; slain by Sigurd.
Wolf; offspring of Loki; swallows Odin at Ragnarok and is slain by Vitharr.
Son of Sigmund and Hiordis; wakened Brynhild from magic sleep; married Gudrun; slain by Guttorm at instigation of Brynhild.
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In what will become one of the repeating themes of Loki's appearances in the myth cycle, his lips are sewn shut by Brokk in a vindictive gesture, which has the effect of temporarily "binding" the flow of his guileful words.
the father (and mother!) of many beings: he has two sons with his wife Sigyn, Nare or Narve and Vale, and three children with the giantess Angrboa: Fenrir, Jormungandr and Hel; to these children he is the father.
This unnamed wife gave birth to Loki's son.
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Most importantly Ívaldi's sons made for all the Æsir the elixir vitae, which is preserved in Ásgarð by their sister Iðunn.
Dwarves/Mímir's sons versus Elves/Ívaldi's sons.) Loki bet his head to Brokk Mímir's son, that Sindri, the most artistic of all Mímir's sons, would not be able to craft treasures to beat the treasures of Ívaldi's sons: i.e.
They were both Gróa's sons, and when he learned that Svipdag offered him a great kingdom on the banks of the Rhine in the west of Germania, he accepted his brother's offer and became king over the West-Teutons, who from his name (Goð-Hormur) received the appellation of Hermiones.
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 Synopsis of Rydberg's Edda
Most importantly Ívaldi's sons made for all the Æsir the elixir vitae, which is preserved in Ásgarður by their sister Iðunn.
Dwarves/Mímir's sons versus Elves/Ívaldi's sons.) Loki bet his head to Brokkur Mímir's son, that Sindri, the most artistic of all Mímir's sons, would not be able to craft treasures to beat the treasures of Ívaldi's sons: i.e.
They were both Gróa's sons, and when he learned that Svipdagur offered him a great kingdom on the banks of the Rhine in the west of Germania, he accepted his brother's offer and became king over the West-Teutons, who from his name (Goð-Hormur) received the appellation of Hermiones.
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 ! Assembly of The Elder Troth - Article - Reaves - Indo-European origins of The Contests of The Artists !
The sons of Ivaldi are gravely insulted and leave the company of the gods with their sisters the swan-maids, among whom is Idunn keeper of the gods means of rejuvenation.
One of the Ivaldi sons, Volund, creates a dangerous sword, more powerful than Mjollnir with which he intends to slay the gods, but the rival smith clan led by Mimir (father of Sindri) captures him and secures the sword.
One group of artists (Tvashtar in the Rigveda, and the Sons of Ivaldi in the Germanic) who are said to be in the company of swan-maids forges a weapon dangerous to the gods, which they later come into possession of (Volund's sword, Tvashtar's "thousand-beamed wedge").
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 Norse Myths
Ivaldi is the watchman of the Spring of Hvergelmir and the rivers Elivagar in Hel.
Also in Asgard is a smithy where the Elf-smiths, or Dwarves, such as Ivaldi's sons and Sindri's kinsmen, work in fine metals, making all kinds of implements and objects for the Gods.
Odhinn's son Vali, whose mother was Rind, daughter of Billing (Elf of the twilight), went seeking the blind Hodur who was hiding.
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 ! Assembly of The Elder Troth - Article - Reaves - The Aesir and The Elves !
The Sons of Ivaldi are friends and allies of the gods, often helping Thor in his battles with the giants.
The sons of Ivaldi are deeply insulted, they give their young charge Frey over to the giants, and head to the Wolfdales, taking Idun and her sisters with them.
The sons of Ivaldi and their swan-maids stay in the Wolf-dales together 7 winters, but in the seventh year, longing overtakes the swanmaids (Idun and her sisters) and they leave.
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 Eitri
In Norse mythology, Eitri is a dwarf, brother of Brokk.
When Loki had Sif's hair, Freyr's ship Skidbladnir and Odin's spear Gungni done by the sons of Ivaldi[?], he bet his own head with Brokk that his brother Eitri wouldn't have been able to make items worth as much as the ones above.
Eitri began working in his furnace while his brother was working the bellows, but a fly (Loki himself?) began stinging Brokk, trying to stop him and spoil the items.
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 Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Norse mythology -
Once the sybil has revealed the secrets of past and future, she falls back into oblivion: "I sink now".
The world was created by obscure deities called "Bur's sons" who lifted it out of Ginnungagap, a "grinning (or yawning) gap" in which nothing lived but a giant cow and a primordial giant.
Having undercut Odin's divinity, Sturlusson then provides the story of the pact by Swedish King On with Odin to prolong his life by sacrificing his sons.
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The sons of Ivaldi are not aware that they are involved in competition and are not said to be present when the works are judged.
Snorri tells a tale in the Younger Edda regarding the Sons of Olvaldi, where he relates that when dividing their fathers inheritance, each one of these "dwarves" took up equal portions of gold in their mouth, thus gold can be called the speech of these dwarves.
The Vilkinasaga also knows the brothers Volund and Egil as giants, son of a giant and a mermaid, while Volundarkvida knows these brothers as "alfr." From a comparison of sources the Sons of Ivaldi, appear to be sons of the elf Ivaldi and the giantess Greip, Geirrod's daughter.
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"Ull, Sif's son and Thor's stepson, is one.
Not coincidentally, all three of the weapons named can be associated with the sons of Ivaldi: The sons of Ivaldi are said to have created the spear Gungnir for Odin; Volund is said to have created a mighty sword; and Egil is an archer.
In this way, we have discovered the identity of Ull's father; To the ancient Heathens, he was the archer Egil, the middle son of the elf Ivaldi and the giantess Greip; Volund's brother, and one of the clan of elf-smiths, the Sons of Ivaldi.
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 Northvegr - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology
The elves that smithied these treasures are called Ivaldi's sons, and constitute the same group of brothers whose gifts to the gods, at the instigation of Loki, are subjected to a public examination by the Asas and by them found wanting as compared with Sindri's products.
(a) Ivaldi's sons are brothers or half-brothers of the goddess of vegetatinn, Idun.
(a) Of Idun, the sister of Ivaldi's sons, it is stated that she was for a time absent from the gods, and dwelt with the primeval artists in a winter-cold land, near Nott, the daughter of Narfi-Mimir.
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 European demons
In Roman mythology, Cacus, the son of Vulcan, was a giant who lived in a cave on Mount Aventine.
Loki, the son of 2 giants, was the trickster god in Norse mythology who was always doing his best to cause trouble.
His wife was Sigyn, who bore him 2 sons, Vali and Nari (or Narvi), though he had an affair with the giantess, Angrboda, who bore him Fenrir, Hel, and Jormungand.
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 Norse World Foundation (Races) [Archive] - Wizards Community
Their children, the Sons of Ivaldi, are friends and allies of the gods, giving them magical treasures freely.
Thjazi, the half-dark elf/half-giant son of Ivaldi, and the group’s primary artist, thwarts the gods’ best effort at peace and strong-arms Loki into luring Idunn, his half-sister way from Asgard with her treasure, the apples of rejuvenation that keep the gods young.
Thjazi, one of Ivaldi’s sons and the group’s primary artist, thwarts the gods’ best effort at peace and strong-arms Loki into luring Idunn, his half-sister way from Asgard with her treasure, the apples of rejuvenation that keep the gods young.
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