The Younger Edda Part 22

HNITBJORG. The place where Suttung hid the poetic mead.

HNOS. Freyja's daughter.

HODER. The slayer of Balder; he is blind.

HODMIMER'S-HOLT. The grove where the two human beings, Lif and Lifthraser, were preserved during Ragnarok.

HOFVARPNER. Gna's horse.

HOGNE. A son of Gjuke.

HONER. One of the three creating G.o.ds; with Odin and Loder he creates Ask and Embla.

HOR. A dwarf.

HORN. A name of Freyja.

HRASVELG. A giant in an eagle's plumage, who produces the wind.

HREIDMAR. The father of Regin and Fafner.

HRIB. One of the streams flowing from Hvergelmer.

HRIMFAXE. The horse of Night.

HRINGHORN. The s.h.i.+p upon which Balder's body was burned.

HRIST. A valkyrie.

HRODVITNER. A wolf; father of the wolf Hate.

HRON. One of the streams flowing from Hvergelmer.

HROPTATYR. A name of Odin.

HROTTE. Fafner's sword.

HRUNGNER. A giant; Thor slew him.

HRYM. A giant, who steers the s.h.i.+p Naglfar at Ragnarok.

HVERGELMER. The fountain in the middle of Niflheim.

HUGE. A person (Thought) who ran a race with Thjalfe, in Jotunheim.

HUGIST. One of Odin's ravens.

HUGSTORE. A dwarf.

HYMER. A giant with whom Thor went fis.h.i.+ng when he caught the Midgard-serpent.

HYNDLA. A vala visited by Freyja.

HYRROKEN. A giantess who launched the s.h.i.+p on which Balder was burned.

IDA. A plain where the G.o.ds first a.s.semble, and where they a.s.semble again after Ragnarok.

IDAVOLD. The same.

IDE. A giant, son of Olvalde.

IDUN. Wife of Brage; she kept the rejuvenating apples.

IRONWOOD. The abode of giantesses called Jarnveds.

IVA. A river in Jotunheim.

IVALD. The father of the dwarfs that made Sif's hair, the s.h.i.+p Skidbladner, and Odin's spear Gungner.

JAFNHAR. A name of Odin.

JALG. A name of Odin.

JALK. A name of Odin.

JARNSAXA. One of Heimdal's nine giant mothers.

JARNVED. The same as Ironwood.

JARNVIDJES. The giantesses dwelling in Ironwood.

JORD. Wife of Odin, mother of Thor.

JORMUNGAND. The Midgard-serpent.

JORMUNREK. King of Goths, marries Svanhild.

JORUVOLD. The country where Aurvang is situated. Thence come several dwarfs.

JOTUNHEIM. The home of the giants.

KERLAUGS. The rivers that Thor every day must cross.

KILE. A dwarf.

KJALER. A name of Odin.

KORMT. A river which Thor every day must cross.

KVASER. The hostage given by the vans to the asas; his blood, when slain, was the poetical meed kept by Suttung.

LADING. One of the fetters with which the Fenris-wolf was bound.

LANDVIDE. Vidar's abode.

LAUFEY. Loke's mother.

LEIPT. One of the rivers flowing out of Hvergelmer.

LERAD. A tree near Valhal.

LETFET. One of the horses of the G.o.ds.

LIF. } The two persons preserved in Hodmimer's-holt during LIFTHRASER.} Ragnarok.

LIT. A dwarf.

LJOSALFAHEIM. The home of the light elves.

LODER. One of the three G.o.ds who created Ask and Embla.

LOFN. One of the asynjes.

LOGE. A giant who tried his strength at eating with Loke in Jotunheim.

LOKE. The giant-G.o.d of the Norse mythology.

LOPT. Another name for Loke.

LOVAR. A dwarf.

LYNGVE. The island where the Fenris-wolf was chained.

MAGNE. A son of Thor.

MANNHEIM. The home of man; our earth.

MARDOL. One of the names of Freyja.

MEGINGJARDER. Thor's belt.

MEILE. A son of Odin.

MENGLAD. Svipdag's betrothed.

MENJA. A female slave who ground at Frode's mill.

MIDGARD. The name of the earth in the mythology.

MIDVITNE. A giant.

MIMER. The name of the wise giant; keeper of the holy well.

MIST. A valkyrie.

MJODVITNER. A dwarf.

MJOLNER. Thorn's hammer.

MJOTUD. A name of Odin.

MODE. One of Thor's sons.

MODGUD. The may who guards the Gjallar-bridge.

MODSOGNER. A dwarf.

MOIN. A serpent under Ygdrasil.

MOKKERKALFE. A clay giant in the myth of Thor and Hrungner.

MOON, brother of Sun. Both children of Mundilfare.

MOONGARM. A wolf of Loke's offspring; he devours the moon.

MORN. A troll-woman.

MUNDILFARE. Father of the sun and moon.

MUNIN. One of Odin's ravens.

MUSPEL. The name of an abode of fire.

MUSPELHEIM. The world of blazing light before the creation.

NA. A dwarf.