Read the information in the following links and describe at least five different Norse beliefs.
They can be done in your books or as a reply to this post. Either way THEY MUST BE DONE
Wikipedia Information on Norse Paganism
Information from the BBC Knowledge Website (Good Links)
Viking Museum site
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Out of all the norse gods Odin was the ruler of the gods and was the god of magic, poetry and war. It was believed he had a son named Balder and a wife named Frigg who was believed to be kind and gentle.
The vikings believed it was better to die in battle rather than in bed as death in battle would result in transportation to valhalla. Valhalla was believed to be a place where great warriors would feast at a long table. Valkyries would escort fallen warriors to Valhalla as well.
Vikings also used to tell stories of a mythical land known as midgar or middle earth. In this land people lived alongside with elves, dwarves and giants. The gods and goddesses were believed to live in a sky world called asgard.
Vikings believed that when a person died he had to be buried with his worldly possessions in order to take them to the next life. Alternatively they could be cremated with their possessions.
It is believed the runes were introduced to the norse people when Odin sacrificed himself. He was pierced by his own spear and hung from a tree called Yggdrasil, as he was hanging he experiences visions of the runes.
-Josh.A
Valhala
Valhala is the Nordic belief that once a hero dies, they will be taken to a gret feast hall. When a hero is taken to Valhala, they are brought by Odin's Valkkyries, his maiden warrors. Here they feast with Odin, the leader of the gods.
Odin
Odin is believed to be the leader of the Norse gods. He is the god of magic, poetry and war. It is believed that it was Odin's self sacrifice that brought runes into the world. This was done by stabbing himself with his own spear, Gungni, and hung on a tree known as Yggdrasil.
Midgard
Midgard is known as Middle Earth. Here lived many magical creatures such as elves, giants and dwarfs. Midgard was linked to the realm of the gods, Asgard, by a rainbow bridge. This was built by the gods to protect the humans of the world.
Asgard
Asgard is the realm of the gods and was located in the sky. This is one of the nine worlds that the Norse believed in. It is believed that in the realm of the gods, Valhala is located.
Ragnarok
Ragnarok is the translated to "final destiny of the gods." This is a belief that a battle is to occur and that important gods will not survive the battle. Once that has happened, the world will be submerged in water. Then it will resurface with the remaining gods will meet and repopulate the earth with two surviving humans.
Tracy
The Norse people belived in many differnt belives and ways of serving their gods. some of theses belives are the following:
scarefice:
the Norse belived that if they made sacrefices to the gods they will be blessed with good fourtune in the particualr area that the god was responsiblre for. the scarefices included animals, humans and inanimate objects. People of the community would volunter to be scareficed for the greater good of the community to the god that they lived in.
Festivals:
The Norse people belived in celebrating their god's to ensaure that they will protect them. The poeple would have big parades and ceromonies to enusre the happyines if their god. Every god had thier own specail festival and tradditons that have been passed down throught the generations. Most of the maodern day christian celebrations orginiated from pagan times examples of this includes: Christmas and the kissing under the missle toe.
valhalla:
The Norse people belived that there was an after life where the person who died will live on forever and watch over the pople who are in the living realm. When some one died they would generally cremate the body. some tribal cheifs would be burnt with dogs, horses, boats and anything that they would need to live on their presvious life in the afterlife.
Magic and Monsters:
The Norse belived in magic and monsters. They blived in magic as they thought by killing and cutting open animals they would be able to see in the future we now know this ias fourtune telling. Thry also told many stories if monster like dragons, and trolls and other monsters which the gods kept chained up so that they wouldnt harm the people or their lifestyles.
Myths:
The worshiped many gods and had many riuals associated with them that they blevied in. They told stories nd spread them by word of mouth so that everyone in the land would know of the gods. These myths were stories of their gods and all the great heroci things that they did to protect their people which they watched over and procteced.
By Andrew A
The Norse were polytheistic (worshipped many gods) and used stories (known as Norse myths) to explain their gods, goddesses and creatures. These gods lived in a sky world called Asgard.
For example, Freya was the godess of love and beauty. She controlled the golden appples at the top of the world which was the secret to immortalty of the gods.
They believed in 9 different worlds, Midgard (Earth), Álfheimr (world of the elves), Svartálfaheim (world of the black elves), Vanaheimr (world of the 'Vanir', Muspellheim (world of fire), Jötunheimr (world of the giants), Niflheim (world of ice), Asgard (world of the Gods) and Hel (the netherworld)
They believed in Valhalla, which was a hall where the souls of heroes, killed in battle, ruled over by Odin.
They believed in monsters, telling many tales of trolls, dragons and serpants etc.
Emily
Sharntel
1. If a warrior was brave and died in battle, they believed that they went to Valhalla, the great hall where there was feasting at long tables. The warriors were said to be brought there by Odin’s warrior maidens and valkyries, riding across the skies.
2. In Norse religion, they believed in many gods, chief of those was Odin. Odins wife was the ‘motherly’ Frigg, and their son was named Balder. Other important gods were Freyja, Freyr, Thor and Loki. All gods had specific properties and looked after different aspects of Norse life.
3. Sacrifice was an important pat of Norse mythology. They believed that sacrifices to the gods would be repaid, bringing them wealth, prosperity, good weather, a good crop, etc. Both human sacrifices and animal were performed.
4. The Norse were very superstitious people. They believed in magic and magical creatures (such as elves and trolls). They believed that people lived in Midguard (middle earth) and that the gods and goddesses lived in Asgard, up in the sky. A rainbow bridge was said to link these two worlds.
5. They believed that the world would end in a final battle called Ragnorok. This battle would be between the giants and the gods. Many of the gods would take sides and kill each other or be killed by other races. A fire would then sweeo across the world killing all races, only leaving just enough to start a new world.
Gods and Goddesses:
The Norse religion consists of many different gods and goddesses with the chief god being Odin. Odin is the highest of all gods and appears in many sagas to help famous heroes and kings. He was the god of magic, poetry and war. Another god was Thor, who was the most popular and who ruled the skies, storms and thunder.
Death and the Afterlife:
Vikings believe that when a warrior dies, they go to Valhalla where a great feast is held at long tables with Odin. For the Viking warriors, it was better to die in battle and go to Valhalla because if they were to die in bed, it was believed that they went to Niflheim, the foggy underworld instead.
Monsters:
Monsters are a common belief in Norse mythology. Some examples of this include Fenrir (the gigantic wolf) and Jormungandr (sea-serpent)
Human Sacrifice:
Sacrifice was commonly practiced in the Norse religion. Human sacrifice to the gods can be divided into 2 types: sacrifice at religious festivals, and retainer sacrifice that was performed at a funeral. It is believed that Odin was associated with death by hanging.
Ragnarok:
Ragnarok is the Norse version of Christianity’s Judgment Day. The belief is that someday, there will be a series of major events, a great battle will take place, an occurrence of various natural disasters and the world will be submerged by fire. Major figures such as the gods Odin and Thor would die during this. Then it is believed that the world would become anew and fertile with the meeting of the surviving gods and repopulation by two surviving humans.
Gods
The norse vikings whould have a pantien of gods the leader or father of the gods was Odin the allfather, the norse believe that the other gods differ from odin which the term allfather originated from, Out of all the gods Thor was the one that was highly reconised.
Valhalla
The norse would believe in an afterlife called Valhalla, Vallhalla was a place where brave warriors would go and feast until the end of time which was called Ragnarock.The vikings where either cremated or buried with there belongings, The viking chieftain where givien a ship funeral where the ship was stock with his/she favourite animals, shields,swords and spears. the ship was then burn't.
Midgard
Midgard or middle earth was told abot in stories by the vikings on where trolls,giants,elves and dwarfs lived was connect to asgard (where the norse gods and goddess live) by a rainbow bridge. SOme of the animals or creatures that live on the midgaurd are the trolls, dragons, sea serpents, and the fierce wolf Fenrir, But also the gods had these mystical creatures such as Odin rode a horse with 8 legs.
Runes
The Runes was the vikings way of comunicating or their written language. The rune Language was believed to be given to the germantic people by Odin because of his sacrife for knowlege. theere are 2500 well known Runes from the viking iron age.
Viking Longboats
The Vikings traveled all over the world, fearlessly daring the seas and oceans.They were very fast and allowed a quick attack and fast escape. And a shallow daft made them independent of harbors allowing them to go ashore on any beach.The Vikings had a dragon head on the bow of the ship to protect against the evil spirits of the sea.
By Chris Kazzi
Jasmin
Odin was the main God associated with the Norse and he was the ruler of all the other gods. He was the god of magic, poetry and war as well.
Death at a battle field is considered more honorable for soldiers as this will help u be transported to Valhalla by the gods.
Valhalla is the a place for great feast. Heros or warriors are escorted by Odin's Valkyries to Valhalla and when they arrived they feast with Odin.
Vikings tradition was that when normal people died that they would be burried with their possessions, which meant they would go with them to the next life. It could work the same way if the person was cremated.
The Norse believe in the midgard (Middle earth)which was the home of elves, giants and dwalfs. The Midgard is linked with the realm of the gods by the rainbow bridge. The rainbow bridge was built to protect the humans.
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