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Eggþér, the Glossary

Eggþér (also Eggthér, or Egdir; Old Norse:, 'Edge-Servant') is a jötunn in Norse mythology.^[1]

31 relations: Agnomen, Andy Orchard, Angrboða, Beowulf (hero), Carolyne Larrington, Cognate, Compound (linguistics), Ecgþeow, Eggther (moon), Fenrir, Fjalar (rooster), Harp, Herder, Járnviðr, Jötunn, John Lindow, Linguistic reconstruction, Mound, Njáls saga, Norse mythology, Old English, Old English literature, Old High German, Old Norse, Peter H. Salus, Proto-Germanic language, Ragnarök, Red herring, Seeress (Germanic), Stanza, Völuspá.
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Agnomen

An agnomen (agnomina), in the Roman naming convention, was a nickname, just as the cognomen had been initially.

Andy Orchard

Andrew Philip McDowell Orchard, (born 27 February 1964) is a British academic of Old English, Norse and Celtic literature.

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Angrboða

Angrboða (Old Norse:; also Angrboda) is a jötunn in Norse mythology.

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Beowulf (hero)

Beowulf (Bēowulf) is a legendary Geatish hero in the eponymous epic poem, one of the oldest surviving pieces of English literature.

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Carolyne Larrington

Carolyne Larrington (born 1959) is a Professor of Medieval European Literature and Official Fellow of St John's College at the University of Oxford.

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Cognate

In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.

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Compound (linguistics)

In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.

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Ecgþeow

Ecgþēow (pronounced), Edgetho (Proto-Norse *Agiþewaz), or Ecgtheow is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf.

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Eggther (moon)

Eggther (Saturn LIX), provisionally known as S/2004 S 27, is a natural satellite of Saturn.

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Fenrir

Fenrir (Old Norse 'fen-dweller')Orchard (1997:42).

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Fjalar (rooster)

Fjalar (Fjalarr, "deceiver") is the mythical red rooster that is said to herald the onset of Ragnarök in Norse mythology.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Herder

A herder is a pastoral worker responsible for the care and management of a herd or flock of domestic animals, usually on open pasture. Eggþér and herder are Herding.

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Járnviðr

In Norse mythology, Járnviðr (Old Norse "Iron-wood"Lindow (2001:204-205).) is a forest located east of Midgard, inhabited by trollwomen who bore jötnar and giant wolves.

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Jötunn

A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn; or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology. Eggþér and jötunn are jötnar.

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John Lindow

John Frederick Lindow (born July 23, 1946) is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California, Berkeley.

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Linguistic reconstruction

Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages.

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Mound

A mound is a heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris.

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Njáls saga, also Njála, or Brennu-Njáls saga (Which can be translated as The Story of Burnt Njáll, or The Saga of Njáll the Burner), is a thirteenth-century Icelandic saga that describes events between 960 and 1020.

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Norse mythology

Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern period.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old English literature

Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England.

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Old High German

Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.

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Old Norse

Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.

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Peter H. Salus

Peter Henry Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals.

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Proto-Germanic language

Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Ragnarök

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (Ragnarǫk) is a foretold series of impending events, including a great battle in which numerous great Norse mythological figures will perish (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdall, and Loki); it will entail a catastrophic series of natural disasters, including the burning of the world, and culminate in the submersion of the world underwater.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggþér