Loredex

A cited, structured reference to the world's myth, legends, and folklore. 1433 entities drawn from 17 primary sources.

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Highlights

• Olaf Haraldson — Eating horse-flesh at pagan sacrifice festivals was considered the most direct proof of paganism, later punished by death or mutilation under Saint Olaf.
• Olaf Tryggvason — Olaf Trygvason founded the merchant town of Nidaros (Throndhjem) at Nidarnes
• Odin — Northern kings commissioned a golden statue of Odin and sent it to Byzantium as an act of worship
• Atli — Atli is the Norse form of the Gothic name Attila (Etzel)
• Gunnar — Gunnar preferred bloodshed to plunder, finding pleasure in slaughter rather than robbery
• Egil — Egil may be the father of Thor's servant Thjalfi, as Snorri says Thor stopped at a peasant's house and took the children Thjalfi and Roskva into service
• Thor — Thor is Woden's son and the strongest of gods or men; he was patron of Starcad.
• Hervarar Saga — Hervarar Saga and Volsunga Saga are notable instances where poems serve as the source of the stories
• Grettir — Grettir was Asmund's second son, hard to manage, rough-mannered, quarrelsome, unloved by his father but loved dearly by his mother
• Frode — King Frode's death was concealed for three years to prevent disturbance within and danger from without.
• Sigurth — The hero poems preserve the oldest extant form of the story of Sigurth, Brynhild, and Atli
• Othin — Othin's sacrifice of his eye to gain knowledge of his final doom is one of the series of disasters leading to the destruction of the gods