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American Gods

American Gods (2001) is a novel by British author Neil Gaiman.

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Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth are a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, formed in 1992.

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Andvari

In Norse mythology, Andvari (12th c. Old Norse:; "careful one") is a dwarf who lives underneath a waterfall and has the power to change himself into a pike (gedda) at will.

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Æsir

Æsir (Old Norse; singular: áss) or ēse (Old English; singular: ōs) are gods in Germanic paganism.

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Brunhild

Brunhild, also known as Brunhilda or Brynhild (Brynhildr, Brünhilt, Modern German or Brünhilde), is a female character from Germanic heroic legend.

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Fáfnir

In Germanic heroic legend and folklore, Fáfnir is a worm or dragon slain by a member of the Völsung family, typically Sigurð.

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God of War (2018 video game)

God of War is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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God of War Ragnarök

God of War Ragnarök is an action-adventure game developed by Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Gungnir

In Norse mythology, Gungnir ("the rocking") is the spear of the god Odin.

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Gylfaginning

Gylfaginning (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi'; 13th century Old Norse pronunciation) is the first main part of the 13th century Prose Edda, after the initial Prologue.

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Gylfi

In Norse mythology, Gylfi (Old Norse), Gylfe, Gylvi, or Gylve was the earliest recorded king of Sviþjoð, Sweden, in Scandinavia.

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Jötunheimr

The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr; often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes inaccurately called "giants").

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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.

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Midgard

In Germanic cosmology, Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse Miðgarðr; Old English Middangeard, Old Saxon Middilgard, Old High German Mittilagart, and Gothic Midjun-gards; "middle yard", "middle enclosure") is the name for Earth (equivalent in meaning to the Greek term οἰκουμένη: oikouménē, "inhabited") inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology.

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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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Odin

Odin (from Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism.

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Oh My Goddess!

, or Ah! My Goddess! in some releases, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima.

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Poetic Edda

The Poetic Edda is the modern name for an untitled collection of Old Norse anonymous narrative poems in alliterative verse.

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Prose Edda

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda (Snorra Edda) or, historically, simply as Edda, is an Old Norse textbook written in Iceland during the early 13th century.

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Rune

A rune is a letter in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples.

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Sigurd

Sigurd (Sigurðr) or Siegfried (Middle High German: Sîvrit) is a legendary hero of Germanic heroic legend, who killed a dragon—known in some Old Norse sources as Fáfnir—and who was later murdered.

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Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (Old Norse:;; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.

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Valhalla

In Norse mythology Valhalla is the anglicised name for Valhǫll ("hall of the slain").

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Valkyrie

In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from chooser of the slain) is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin's hall Valhalla.

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Völsunga saga

The Völsunga saga (often referred to in English as the Volsunga Saga or Saga of the Völsungs) is a legendary saga, a late 13th-century prose rendition in Old Norse of the origin and decline of the Völsung clan (including the story of Sigurd and Brynhild and the destruction of the Burgundians).

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Völuspá

Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda.

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Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology.

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