WebIn Norse mythology, Hermóðr must cross a bridge over the river Giöll in order to reach Hel and, ... *h₁éḱwos, although the names are not always cognate, and no Proto-Indo-European name for them can be reconstructed. Pair of Roman statuettes from the third century AD depicting the Dioscuri as horsemen, ...

WebProto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.. Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branches during the fifth century BC to fifth century AD: West Germanic, East Germanic and North Germanic, …

WebOld Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is the most common name for a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples.It was replaced by Christianity and forgotten during the Christianisation of Scandinavia.Scholars …

WebThe Norse–Gaels (Old Irish: Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Scottish Gaelic: Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. They emerged in the Viking Age, when Vikings who settled in Ireland and in Scotland adopted Gaelic culture and intermarried with Gaels. The Norse–Gaels dominated much of the …

WebThe modern Brittonic languages are generally considered to all derive from a common ancestral language termed Brittonic, British, Common Brittonic, Old Brittonic or Proto-Brittonic, which is thought to have developed from Proto-Celtic or early Insular Celtic by the 6th century BC.. A major archaeogenetics study uncovered a migration into southern …

WebNorse, 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. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology and stemming from Proto-Germanic …

WebOld Norse; Old Nordic: dǫnsk tunga ("Danish tongue") norrǿnt mál ("Norwegian language") norrǿna: Native to: Scandinavia, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland and other Norse settlements: Region: Nordic countries, Great Britain, Ireland, Isle of Man, Normandy, Newfoundland, the Volga and places in-between: Ethnicity: Norsemen and their …

WebProto-Germanic folklore is the folklore of the speakers of Proto-Germanic and includes topics such as the Germanic mythology, legendry, and folk beliefs of early Germanic culture.By way of the comparative method, Germanic philologists, a variety of historical linguist, have proposed reconstructions of entities, locations, and concepts with various …

WebFormal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

WebIn Norse mythology, Ymir (/ ˈ iː m ɪər /, Old Norse: ), also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar.Ymir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, in the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, and in the poetry of skalds.Taken together, several stanzas from four poems …