_Audhumla_--The first cow. Signifies, "void, darkness." _Baldur_--Bright, white, bold. _Barri_--The Warm Wood. _Beli_--The stag killed by Frey. _Beli_ signifies, "to bellow." _Bifröst_--Name given to the rainbow. It means, "the Tremulous or Aërial Bridge." _Bilskirnir_--Name of Thor's mansion. It signifies either "bright space" or "storm-serene." _Bör_ or _Bur_--The first hero. _Bragi_--The god of eloquence. From _braga_, "to shine;" or _bragga_, "to adorn." _Bragr_, which in Norse signifies "poetry," has become in English "to brag," and a poet "a braggart." From Bragi's bumper, the Bragafull, comes our word "bragget," and probably, also, the verb "to brew;" Norse, _brugga_. _Breidablik_--Name of Baldur's abode. It means, "broad-blink, wide-glancing, expanded splendour." _Brisingamen_--Name of Freyja's necklace. From _brising_ "flaming." _Dain_--Signifies, "swoon," or "complete repose." It is the name of one of the four harts which ran about among the branches of Yggdrasil; also the name of a dwarf. _Draupnir_--A ring of Odin, which, after being placed on Baldur's pile, acquired the power of dropping every ninth night eight rings of equal weight with itself. _Dromi_--Name of a chain by which Fenrir was bound, and from which he freed himself. It has since become a proverb in Sweden, "To get loose from Læding, and to dash out of Dromi," when anything is to be done with great exertion. _Duneyr_--Name of one of the harts which lived in Yggdrasil. _Durathror_--Light sleep. Another of the harts. _Durin_--Name of a dwarf. Signifies, "light sleep." _Dvalin_--Torpor. Name of one of the harts; also of a dwarf. _Einherjar_--Chosen heroes. _Elivágar_--Stormy waves. The name of the rivers which flowed forth from Hvergelmir, and hardened into ice in Ginnungagap, the abyss of abysses, situated between Niflheim and Muspellheim. _Elli_--Old Age. She wrestled with Thor in Jötunheim. _Elvidnir_--The entrance-hall of Hela's palace. It means, "wide storm." _Ermt_--Name of a river through which Thor had to wade. _Fenrir_ or _Fenris Ulfr_--Monster wolf, or dweller in an abyss, or howling wolf of the deep. _Fensalir_--Frigga's abode. _Fensaloon_, or watery deep. _Folkvang_--Freyja's abode. Literally, "the folk's field or habitation." _Frey_ and _Freyja_--Master and mistress, from whence the German word "frau." The names also signify, "mild, joyous, fructifying, beauteous." _Frigga_ or _Frigg_--Free, beauteous, winsome. _Garm_--The dog with bloody breast and jaws who guarded the way to Helheim. From gerr, "voracious," a word probably cognate with English "gorge." _Gerd_, _Gerda_, or _Gerdur_--From _gera_, "to do--make," as in _akrgerd_, "agriculture." _Gimli_--Name of the heavenly city which existed after the destruction and renewal of the world. Signifies, "fire," or "gem." _Ginnungagap_--The space between Niflheim and Muspellheim. Literally, "the gap of gaps, the abyss of abysses, the yawning, gaping abyss."