Norse Mythology Review

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