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Norse Mythology: The Eddas and Sagas

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  1. 1. Her bowl turns poison-catching into an act of marital devotion
  2. 4. Darkness personified, she rides Hrimfaxi
  3. 5. Blind god who threw the mistletoe that Loki handed him
  4. 8. Creation's opening? The yawning void between primordial heat and cold
  5. 10. Her net makes the sea a catching place
  6. 11. Wise lawyer of Bergthorshvoll, title figure of a celebrated Icelandic saga
  7. 12. The past has a seat beneath the world tree: name this Norn
  8. 13. He puts poetry in the divine pantheon and is wed to Idunn

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  1. 1. Sturluson who gave poets a mythological handbook in the Prose Edda
  2. 2. Skinfaxi brings this personified daylight along for the ride
  3. 3. A seeress speaks: this Eddic poem spans creation, cosmic doom and renewal
  4. 6. Odin's jewelry has an offspring schedule: eight rings every ninth night
  5. 7. Odin makes his point with this spear, fashioned by Ivaldi's sons
  6. 8. In the Volsunga saga, Gjuki's daughter who later marries Atli
  7. 9. Noatun's resident deity, invoked for prosperous voyages and catches

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Norse Mythology: Magical Artifacts and Weapons

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  1. 3. Sif's replacement tresses, crafted from precious metal
  2. 7. Cursed blade that must take a life whenever it is drawn
  3. 8. Accessory whose name means 'power girdle'
  4. 10. God whose self-fighting blade passes to Skirnir
  5. 12. Vessel secretly linked to the sea in Utgardaloki's test of thirst
  6. 13. Brokkr's smith brother, also known as Sindri

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  1. 1. Waist-worn source of the thunder god's doubled strength
  2. 2. Restraint made with impossibilities, including the sound of a cat's footfall
  3. 4. Cursed treasure whose name means 'Andvari's gift'
  4. 5. Shape of the treasure Andvari cursed, worn around a finger
  5. 6. Iron handwear needed to grip the thunder god's weapon
  6. 9. Second restraint that Fenrir breaks during the gods' tests
  7. 11. Thick footwear used to brace open Fenrir's jaws

Norse Mythology: Heroes and Valkyries

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  1. 2. A hazy name for one of Odin's supernatural cupbearers
  2. 3. Chooser of the slain whose name means 'battle'
  3. 4. Trickster who once became a mare
  4. 5. Supernatural cupbearer whose name means 'shaker'
  5. 8. Volsung's son who draws a blade from the tree Barnstokkr
  6. 10. Hero's steed descended from Odin's eight-legged mount
  7. 12. Smith who fosters the dragon-slaying hero of the Volsunga saga
  8. 13. Norn associated with the future and also counted among battle maidens
  9. 14. ___ Hundingsbane, heroic prince loved by a battle maiden

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  1. 1. God equally at home on skis or with a bow
  2. 2. Weapon that returns to Thor's hand after a throw
  3. 6. Hogni's daughter who loves the hero called Hundingsbane
  4. 7. Son of Odin who avenged Baldr when just one night old
  5. 8. In Hakonarmal, she tells King Hakon that his side won the field
  6. 9. Goddess praised as a skilled physician in the Prose Edda
  7. 11. Legendary king modeled on Attila the Hun

Norse Mythology: Ragnarok

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  1. 3. Weapon Freyr gave away, leaving him vulnerable in the final battle
  2. 5. Heimdall's instrument for sounding the ultimate alarm
  3. 8. Battlefield choosers who recruit the fallen for Odin's host
  4. 9. Rock anchoring the monstrous wolf's magical restraint
  5. 12. The plain of ___ stretches a hundred leagues in each direction for the final battle
  6. 13. Name meaning 'wrath' borne by one of Thor's surviving sons

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  1. 1. His name means 'strength'; he helps inherit Mjolnir after Thor's fall
  2. 2. Sun goddess whose daughter inherits her celestial route
  3. 3. Blazing giant who defeats Freyr in the final battle
  4. 4. The gods' foretold doom, followed by a renewed world
  5. 6. Celestial pursuer whose quarry is the sun
  6. 7. Wolf foretold to swallow Odin at the last battle
  7. 9. Hound whose last opponent is Tyr
  8. 10. Snorri Sturluson's Prose ___ preserves an account of the gods' downfall
  9. 11. Woman who shelters in Hoddmimir's wood through the world's destruction

Norse Mythology: Giants, Dwarves and Creatures

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  1. 1. The Lay of ___, an Eddic poem about a stolen hammer and an unusual wedding
  2. 4. Thjalfi's unbeatable racing opponent, who personified thought
  3. 5. Odin's mount, equipped with twice the usual number of legs
  4. 9. Squirrel that carries insults between the top and bottom of Yggdrasil
  5. 10. Skiing giantess who chose a husband by looking only at the candidates' feet
  6. 12. Giantess wooed on Freyr's behalf by the messenger Skirnir
  7. 13. Dragon that gnaws at a root of Yggdrasil

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  1. 2. Primordial giant whose body became the building material for the world
  2. 3. Mother of Odin's son Vali, counted among the goddesses by Snorri
  3. 4. Eagle-shaped giant whose wingbeats produce the winds
  4. 6. Dwarf who worked the bellows while a gadfly tried to disrupt the forging of Mjolnir
  5. 7. Celestial wolf that pursues the moon
  6. 8. Helpful giantess who lent Thor a staff and iron gloves
  7. 11. Dwarf listed in Voluspa whose name is shared by one of Yggdrasil's four stags

Norse Mythology: Days of the Week and the Norse Gods

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  1. 1. Small mythical craftsman of the kind that forged Thor's hammer.
  2. 6. Burning element that fills the realm of Muspelheim.
  3. 7. Weapon used with arrows by the god Ullr.
  4. 9. Weekday named for Thor, the god of thunder.
  5. 12. Precious yellow metal used to make Sif's replacement hair.
  6. 13. First day of the standard workweek, named for Earth's natural satellite.
  7. 14. Odin's wife and the queen of the Norse gods.
  8. 15. Norse goddess of love and beauty who owned the necklace Brisingamen.

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  1. 2. Midweek day named for Woden, the Germanic counterpart of Odin.
  2. 3. Traditional last day of the workweek, named for a Germanic goddess.
  3. 4. Gungnir was Odin's weapon of this type, with a pointed tip on a long shaft.
  4. 5. ___ giants, the beings of Norse myth associated with bitter cold.
  5. 8. Weekday whose English name honors Tiw, a Germanic god of war.
  6. 10. Home of Odin and Thor in Norse mythology.
  7. 11. Gullinbursti, the tusked mount of a fertility god, was this animal.

Norse Mythology: The Nine Realms

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  1. 2. The cosmic tree is traditionally described as an ___
  2. 5. Large bird of prey perched atop the cosmic tree
  3. 6. Huge mythical being, such as Ymir
  4. 10. Great hall where Valkyries bring chosen fighters after death
  5. 11. Supernatural folk divided into light and dark kinds in Scandinavian myths
  6. 12. Frozen water that met primordial heat in the Scandinavian creation story
  7. 13. Deep water source guarded by the wise Mimir
  8. 14. Tongue of fire in the blazing southern world
  9. 15. Alcoholic honey drink served in the halls of the gods

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  1. 1. One-eyed ruler of the Scandinavian gods
  2. 3. Underworld that shares its name with the goddess who rules it
  3. 4. Vast cosmic tree connecting the nine worlds
  4. 7. Primordial northern world of mist and bitter cold
  5. 8. Mjolnir is Thor's magical ___
  6. 9. Domain given to Freyr, inhabited by luminous magical folk

Norse Mythology: The Aesir Gods

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  1. 1. Colorful arc across the sky that forms the gods' bridge.
  2. 4. One-handed god of war in northern mythology.
  3. 5. Describing the mythology of ancient Scandinavia.
  4. 8. Body part sacrificed at Mimir's well for greater knowledge.
  5. 10. Battle-trained fighter whom a Valkyrie might choose after death.
  6. 11. Fruit kept by Idunn to preserve the gods' youth.
  7. 13. Major family of northern gods, distinct from the Vanir.

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  1. 2. Beloved god whose death was caused by mistletoe.
  2. 3. Geri and Freki are these wild relatives of dogs.
  3. 4. Red-bearded god of storms and strength.
  4. 6. Adult male horse, such as Svadilfari, the giant builder's helper in the Eddas
  5. 7. Watchman of the gods who sounds the horn Gjallarhorn.
  6. 9. A kingdom or domain, such as Jotunheim.
  7. 12. Yggdrasil is an enormous example of this woody plant.
  8. 14. Goddess whose replacement hair was made by dwarfs.
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