Norse Mythology
- Freyja, goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold,music, seiðr, war, and death
- Odin, god associated with wisdom, war, battle, and death, and also magic, poetry, prophecy, victory, the hunt, and music
- Thor, god associated with thunder, strength, defense, oaks, goats, lightning, storms, weather, crops, trading voyages, courage, trust, revenge, protection, warfare and battles
- Týr, god associated with honor, law (the "Allthing"), justice in battle, victory, and heroic glory
- Ullr, god associated with archery, male beauty, skiing, winter sports, single combat, and war
- Valkyries, goddesses who decide who will die in battle and bring the dead to Valhalla, the afterlife hall of the slain
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“Carlyle has not the simple Homeric health of Wordsworth, nor the deliberate philosophic turn of Coleridge, nor the scholastic taste of Landor, but, though sick and under restraint, the constitutional vigor of one of his old Norse heroes.”
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