| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Perkele" | Finland | The devil. Originally Perkele was not the devil but a god of thunder and can be seen as an earlier form of Ukko. Related to Baltic Perkunas and Norse Thor. |
| King name "Promise of Odin" | Norse | The most binding of all promises to a Scandinavian. In making this promise the person påśśed his hand through a måśśive silver ring kept for the purpose; or through a sacrificial stone, like that called the "Circle of Stennis." Norse |
| God name "Ragnarok" | Norse | Sentence, judgment, from rekja, is the whole development from creation to dissolution, and would, in this word, denote the dissolution, doomsday, of the gods; or it may be from rokr, reykkr, smoke, twilight, and then the word means the twilight of the gods. The last day; the dissolution of the gods and the world. Norse |
| Goddess name "Ran" | Norse | The goddess of the sea; wife of ?ger. Norse |
"Ratatosk" | Norse | A squirrel that runs up and down the branches of Ygdrasil. Norse |
"Rate" | Norse | An auger used by Odin in obtaining the poetic mead. Norse |
"Regin" | Norse | Son of Hreidmar; brother of Fafner and Otter. Norse |
"Reimkennar" | Norse | A sorceress, a pythoness; one skilled in numbers. Sorcery and Chaldean numbers are synonymous terms. The Anglo-Saxon rimstafas means charms or conjuration, and the Norse reim-kennar means one skilled in numbers or charms. Norna of the Fitful Head was a Reimkennar, "a controller of the elements." |
| Goddess name "Rind" | Norse | Goddess of Winter. Norse |
"Rind" | Norse | A personification of the hard frozen earth. Mother of Vale. The loves of Odin and Rind resemble those of Zeus and Europa in Greek legends. Norse |
"Ropt" | Norse | The name by which Odin is known in Valhalla. Norse |
"Roskva" | Norse | The name of the maiden follower of Thor. She symbolizes the ripe fields of harvest. Norse |
| God name "Saehrimner [Rime-producer]" | Norse | The name of the boar on which the gods and heroes in Valhal constantly feed. Norse |
| Goddess name "Saga" | Norse | The goddess of history. She dwells in the crystal hall of Sokvabek. Norse |
"Sesrumner" | Norse | Freyja's large-seated palace. Norse |
"Sidhat" | Norse | [Long-hood]. One of Odin's names, from his traveling in disguise with a large hat on his head hanging down over one side of his face to conceal his missing eye. Norse |
"Sidskeg [Long-beard]" | Norse | One of Brage's names. It is also a name of Odin in the lay of Grimner. Norse |
| Goddess name "Sif" | Norse | The wife of Thor and mother of Uller. The word denotes affinity. Sif, the golden-haired goddess, wife of Thor, betokens mother earth with her bright green gråśś. She was the goddess of the sanctity of the family and wedlock, and hence her name. Norse |
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