Norse Mythology

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AURORA

AURORA BOREALIS Shimmering lights or luminescence that sometimes appear in night skies in the Northern Hemisphere. Also called the northern lights. In Norse mythology this beautiful sight was said to be the radiance emitted by gerda, the jotun maiden who became the wife of the god frey.

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AURORA in Norse Mythology. . Also called the northern lights..AURORA BOREALIS Shimmering lights or luminescence that sometimes appear in night skies in the Northern Hemisphere.. In Norse myt. There are few accounts from the 14th to the 18th century, but the clergy, such as Olaus Magnus (1555) wrote about the difficulties of extinguishing the old beliefs. The story related in rymskvia appears to have been unusually resilient, like the romantic story of Hagbard and Signy, and versions of both were recorded in the 17th century and as late as the 19th century. In the 19th and early 20th century Swedish folklorists documented what commoners believed, and what surfaced were many surviving traditions of the gods of Norse mythology. However, the traditions were by then far from the cohesive system of Snorri's accounts. Most gods had been forgotten and only the hunting Odin and the jotunn-slaying Thor figure in numerous legends. Freyja is mentioned a few times and Baldr only survives in legends about place names. Aesir,greek gods,norse goddess

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