GLOSSARY
- LODURR, LODR, LOTHR, from the ob. N. lod, fire.
- LOFNA, prop. LOFN, appears allegorically to denote perennial and unchangeable love.
- LOGI, Flame; a log of wood burnt or to be burnt.
- LOKI, to shut; whence the E. to lock, to finish.
- LOPTUR, the Aerial, the Sublime; the air; whence the E. lofty and aloft, also a (hay) loft.
- LYNGVI, from lyng or ling, the sweet broom, heath or ling.
- MAGNI, the Potent, the Powerful; force, energy.
- MANAGARMR, lit. the moon's wolf; a monster wolf or dog, voracious.
- MANI, the moon.
- MARDOLL, Sea-nymph; mere, the sea; whence our word mere, as Windermere, Buttermere, &c: doll, a nymph; poetically a woman.
- MEGINGJARDIR, the Girdle of Might, the Belt of Prowess.
- MIDGARD, middleweard, the middleward; see Asgard. Middling, mean.
- MIMIR, or MIMER, to keep in memory; to be fanciful; mindful.
- MJODVITNIR, lit. knowing in mead; wine; madja, palm-wine,
- MJOLNIR, or MJOLLNIR, prob. from v. melja, to pound, or v. mala, to grind; E. mill, and prob. with L. malleus, a mallet.
- MODGUDUR, a valiant female warrior, animosa bellona: courage; mind; E. mood; gracefulness, delectation.
- MODSOGNIR, lit. sucking in courage or vigour.
- MOINN, dwelling on a moor.
- MUNINN, mind; memory, recollection; G. minne, love.
- MUSPELLHEIMR, Muspell's region or home; used in the sense of elemental or empyreal fire.
- NAGLFAR, a nail from nagl, a human nail; according to the Prose Edda, "constructed of the nails of dead men"; a sea-faring man.
- NAL. G. nadel; A. S. nædl; E. a needle.
- NANNA. Grimm derives this word from the v. nenna, to dare.
- NAR, a corpse.
- NASTROND, a corpse; The Strand of the Dead.
- NAUDUR, necessity; need.
- NAUT, ph. from the v. njota, to make use of.
- NIDAFJOLL, a rock, a mountain.
- NIDHOGG, a phrase used to idicate the new and the waning moon.
- NIDI, from nidr, downwards.
- NIFLHEIMR, lit. Nebulous-home—the shadowy region of death.
- NIFLHEL, from nifl and hel. See the latter word.
- NIFLUNGAR, the mythic-heroic ghosts of the shadowy realms of death.
- NIPINGR, handsome; to contract, to curve.
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