Norse Mythology Review
Across
- 5. Horn that Heimdal will blow announcing the beginning of Ragnarok
- 7. One of the nine realms, this is where humans live.
- 8. It was from this being’s well that Odin attained great wisdom by giving up his eye
- 10. Young man who could run faster than anyone else; he accompanied Thor and Loki on a trip into Jotunheim where he raced against the speed of thought
- 14. The rainbow bridge into Valhallah
- 16. Daughter of Loki, goddess of death and the underworld; half beautiful young woman, half corpse
- 17. The world tree, its roots and branches run through all nine realms
- 19. The trickster god who secretly cut off Thor’s wife Sif’s hair one night
- 22. God of war and justice, he lost his hand to the wolf Fenris
- 23. Odin’s magical arm bracelet that created copies of itself every nine days, forged for him by dwarfs
- 24. Frigg tried to protect Balder by making everything except this promise not to harm him
- 25. Wife of Odin, mother of Thor and Balder, she was tricked by Loki into revealing Balder’s only weakness
- 26. Odin’s magical spear, forged for him by dwarfs. Oaths sworn on it must be kept
- 27. The Battlemaidens who take fallen warriors to live in Vallhalla
Down
- 1. He guards the Bifrost into Valhalla
- 2. The magical hammer of Thor that always returns to him when he throws it.
- 3. A huge wolf and son of Loki, he is bound in a magical ribbon created by dwarfs and will kill Odin at the end of time
- 4. They have fought a war with the gods from the beginning of time
- 6. Son of Odin, god of Thunder and Lightning, who fights the great serpent at the end of the world
- 9. One of the nine realms, this is a place of fire
- 11. Huge giant who was sacrificed at the beginning of time to create the world
- 12. One of the nine realms, this is the home of the gods
- 13. Called “Allfather” or “The Wanderer,” this one-eyed god carries the powerful spear Gungnir into battle
- 14. The best and most beautiful of the gods; the gods celebrated by trying to hit him with different objects when they learned he was almost completely invulnerable
- 15. Child of Loki and a great serpent who is killed by Thor at the end of time
- 18. One of the nine realms, this is the home of the frost giants; on a journey their Thor and Loki slept in a “cave” that was really the glove of a giant
- 20. Keeper of the apples of immortality
- 21. The name of the last battle in which the gods are defeated and the world is destroyed and renewed