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Ok, been going through my collection of norse lore and decided to post some of the names that could be useful to my fellow Wolflords for fleshing out their characters and equipment.

 

Horses (useful names for Rhinos and Razorbacks)

 

Alsvider: One of the horses that pulled the chariot which conveyed the moon

Alsvin: One of the horses that pulled the chariot which conveyed the sun

Arvakr: One of the horses that pulled the chariot which conveyed the sun

Blodughofi: Frey’s horse

Greyfell: Sigurd’s Horse

Gull-top: Heimdall’s horse

Gullfaxi: The giant Hrungnir’s horse, eventually a gift by Thor to his son Magni.

Hofvarpnir: The horse of the goddess Gna.

Hrimfaxi: The horse of Nott

Skinfaxi: The horse pulling the chariot of Dag

Sleipnir: The eight legged horse of Odin

Svadilfare: The sire of Sleipnir and helped put the walls around Asgard.

 

Items

 

Andvaranaut: the ring of the dwarf Andvari

Boden: One of the bowls in which the dwarfs Fialar and Galar drained the blood of the murdered god Kvasir

Brisingamen: The necklace forged by the dwarfs Alfrigg, Berling, Dvalin and Grerr. Freya wanted the necklace and agreed to sleep with the dwarfs in return for it.

Draupnir: A gold ring which belonged to Odin. Every ninth night it produced eight identical rings.

Droma: The second chain fashioned by the gods to bind Fenris

Eldhrimnir: The cauldron in Valhalla in which the great boar Saehrimnir was cooked each day.

Gambantein: Hermod’s magical wand

Gelgia: End of the chain that finaly bound Fenris

Giallar-Horn: Heimdall’s horn

Gioll: The rock to which the gods bound Fenris

Gleipnir: The third chain used to try and bind Fenris

Hlidskialf: The high throne from which Odin could see all over the nine worlds

Laeding: The first chain used in the attempt to bind Fenris.

Megingfiord: The belt of Thor

 

Weapons

 

Angurvadel: The magic sword of Viking

Balmung: The sword of Sigmund

Gungnir: A magical spear made by the dwarf Dvalin on loki’s request to placate Thor and Sif

Miming: A sword made by Volund for his son Heime

Svalin: a shield which protected the earth from the worst of the sun’s rays.

Tyrfing: A dwarf-forged sword belonging to Angantyr

 

 

Ships (useful names for starships and thunderhawks)

 

Ellida: The magical dragonship given to Viking by the god Aegir

Mannigfual: A ship owned by the giants that was so large that a children sent to climb the mast where old men by the time they returned.

Ringhorn; The ship upon which the god Balder and his wife Nanna where cremated.

Skidbladnir: A magical ship built for Loki by the dwarfs Dvalin to placate Thor and Sif

 

Beasts

 

Audhumla: The sacred cow that sustained Ymir and revealed Buri

Dain: One of the four stags dwelling on Yggdrasil

Duneyr: One of the four stags dwelling on Yggdrasil

Durathor: One of the four stags dwelling on Yggdrasil

Dvalin; One of the four stags dwelling on Yggdrasil (shares the name with a dwarf)

Fafnir: A dwarf, cursed by Loki, turned into a Dragon

Garm: A dog chained in the cave of Gnipa at the gates of Hel.

Gullinbursti: A great boar made by the dwarfs Brock and Sindri, eventually owned by Frey

Gullinkambri: A cock living in Valhalla, awakens the Einherjar to battle each day and will herald the dawn of Ragnarok.

Hati: One of the wolves that pursued the sun and moon across the sky, just before ragnarok it will catch and consume the moon.

Skoll: One of the wolves that pursued the sun and moon across the sky, just before ragnarok it will catch and consume the sun.

Heidrun: The goat in Valhalla that produced an endless supply of mead for the Einherjar.

Himinbrioter: A huge ox owned by the giant Hymnir. Thor killed it and used it’s head as fishbait.

Managarm: A wolfwho was the child of Iarnsaxa, fathered by Fenris.

Ratatosk: A squirrel that travelled between the top and bottom of Yggdrasil to convey the insults of the eagle at the top and the dragon at the bottom to each other.

Nidhug: A dragon who chewed the corpses of evil-doers and gnawed upon the roots of Yggdrasil

 

Selected Norse heroes (and sometimes villains)

 

Agnar: A norse king who mistreated Odin when he visited the Jarl in disguise.

Askr: the first man

Belldegg: A son of Odin who became a king of west Saxony.

Ermenrich: King of Gothland, married the Vakyrie Swanhild.

Frithiof: A Nordic hero, son of Thorsten and Ingeborg

Gunnar: Married the Valkyrie Brunhild through his mother’s sorcery

Jarl: Progenitor of the race of warriors

Karl: Progenitor of the race of peasants

Thrall: progenitor of the race of slaves

Lif: the man who will survive Ragnarok and with the woman Lifthrasir will recreate the human race.

Ottar: A hero who, with the help of Freya, won a legal dispute with Angantyr

Randwer: Falsely accused of sleeping with Swanhild and condemned to death

Saeming: a son of Odin who became a king.

Sibich: the man responsible for Randwer’s death

Sigmund: Norse hero

Sigurd: Norse hero

Thorsten: Norse hero

Viking: Norse hero

Volund: A crippled and enslaved smith

 

Selected Norse names

 

Agnar

Alrek

Arnfinn

Asmund

Bard

Beiti

Bjarkmar

Brand

Brnjolf

Eddval

Egil

Eirik

Eitil

Fjolmod

Fridleif

Gautrek

Geirrod

Glammad

Gripir

Gunnar

Haeming

Hafgrim

Hakon

Hamdir

Heidrek

Herbjorn

Hjalmar

Hlodver

Holmgeir

Hunding

Ivar

Jokul

Ketil

Kjar

Leif

Olaf

Olvir

Raknar

Raevil

Rolf

Skuli

Snaevar

Steinthor

Svidi

Thorstein

Thrand

Toki

Ulf

Vignir

Vikar

Volund

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