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Fafnir

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nidhoggnoun	(Norse mythology) a dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned.
fenrirnoun	(Norse mythology) A monstrous wolf, one of Loki's offspring, who bites off Tyr's right hand while being bound by the gods in fear of a prophecy that he will kill Odin, remaining so bound until the events of Ragnarok.
vidofnirnoun	(Norse mythology) A mythological bird (variously, a falcon or a rooster) that inhabits the top of Mímameiðr, a tree identified with Yggdrasil; sometimes positioned on the brow of another cosmic bird.
sigurdnoun	(Norse mythology) The principal hero of the Volsungasaga and of the Elder Edda's Niflung cycle, who slew a dragon.
freyrnoun	(Norse mythology) A Vanir god associated with kingship and virility in the North Germanic corpus, in which he rides the shining boar Gullinbursti and wields an antler as a weapon. He is sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr.
sessrumnirnoun	Alternative spelling of Sessrúmnir. [(Norse mythology) Freyja's hall in the Fólkvangr, her room for half of the those slain on the battlefield.]
hafgannoun	(Celtic mythology) One of the kings of Annwn, the otherworld in Welsh mythology.
freyanoun	A female given name from Old Norse of mostly British usage.
freyjanoun	(Norse mythology) A deity among the Vanir associated with sex, death, and seiðr, who receives half of those who die in battle in the afterlife field Fólkvangr (the other half going to Odin's hall, Valhalla), and whose brother is Freyr.
gleipnirnoun	(Norse mythology) The binding that holds Fenrir, a chain made of six impossible objects forged together by the dwarves.
siegfriednoun	(Germanic mythology) A hero of the Nibelungenlied who defeated the Icelandic queen Brunhild.
ægirnoun	(Norse mythology) A giant and king of the sea, personifying the power thereof. He is the son of Fornjótr, and the brother of Logi and Kári. He has nine daughters — the billow maidens — by his wife, Rán, namely: Bára, Blóðughadda, Bylgja, Dúfa, Hefring, Himinglæva, Hrönn, Kólga, and Unnr.
hrimfaxinoun	(Norse mythology) The horse ridden by Nótt (night).
vidarnoun	(Norse mythology) A god, son of Odin.
jörmungandrnoun	(Norse mythology) The World Serpent or Midgard Serpent, an offspring of Loki, which is thrown into the ocean by Odin but grows to encircle the world, and is finally slain during Ragnarok by Thor, who then succumbs to its poisonous breath.
dark alfsnoun	(Norse mythology) The Dǫkkálfar.
höðrnoun	(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.
light alfsnoun	(Norse mythology) The Ljósalfar.
fuamnachnoun	(Irish mythology) Midir's rejected first wife, who became jealous of Midir's lover Étaín, casting three spells on Étain, turning her into a pool of water, then into a worm, and then into a fly.
redbeardnoun	(Norse mythology, sagas and Germanic paganism) The god Thor.