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One of the fetters with which the Fenris-wolf was bound. Læding.

[Furnishing protection]. A tree near Valhal. Lærad.

[A mountain range overgrown with trees is viði.] Vidar's abode. The primeval forests. Landvide.

[Leafy island]. Loke's mother. Laufey.

, } (The two persons preserved in Hodmimer's grove       }   during Surt's conflagration in Ragnarok; the                         last beings in the old and the first in the new world. Lif                          and Lifthraser.   [Light-foot]. One of the horses of the gods. Lightfoot.

A dwarf that Thor kicked into Balder's funeral pile. Liter.

A protégé of Odin. Lodfafner.

[Compare Germ. lodern, to flame]. One of the three gods (Odin, Hæner and Loder) who create Ask and Embla, the first man and woman. He is identical with Loke. Loder.

[Icel. lúka, to end, finish: Loke is the end and consummation of divinity]. The evil giant-god of the Norse mythology. He steers the ship Naglfar in Ragnarok. He borrows Freyja's feather-garb and accompanies Thor to the giant Thrym, who has stolen Thor's hammer. He is the father of Sleipner; but also of the Midgaard-serpent, of the Fenris-wolf and of Hel. He causes Balder's death, abuses the gods in Æger's feast, but is captured in Fraanangerforce and is bound by the gods. Loke.

[The aërial]. Another name of Loke. Lopter.

M

[megin, might, strength]. A son of Thor. Magne.

[Ulfilas mêna; Anglo-Sax. môna; Eng. moon]. Brother of Sol (the sun, feminine), and both were children of the giant Mundilfare. Moon or Maane. or. One of the names of Freyja. Mardallar grátr (the tears of Mardal), gold. Mardal.

[Moon-swallower]. A wolf of Loke's offspring. He devours the moon. Maanegarm or Moongarm. (plural) [Homes of man]. Our earth. Manheim.

A son of Odin. Meile.