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 * ÆGIR or ŒGIR, horror, terror.
 * ÆSIR, sing. AS; God, Gods. ASYNJA, ASYNJOR; Goddess, Goddesses.
 * AI, from a, a river.
 * ALFADIR, or ALFODUR, All-Father, or the Father of All.
 * ALFR, Elf.
 * ALSVIDR, All-scorching.
 * ALTHJOFR, lit. All-thief, an accomplished rascal.
 * ALVISS, All-wise.
 * AMSVARTNIR, grief, black, gloomy, swart.
 * ANDHRIMNIR, soul, spirit, breath: from hrim, congealed vapour, rime.
 * ANDLANGR, from aund, spirit, breath; and langr, long.
 * ANDVARI, prob. from aund, spirit; cautious, timid.
 * ANGURBODI, Anguish-boding, announcing or presaging calamity.
 * ARVAKR, awakening early; ar, the dawn, Aurora.
 * ASGARD, prop. ASGARDR, lit. God's-ward, or the abode of the gods.
 * ASKR, an ash-tree.
 * AUDHUMLA, void, vacuity, darkness, tenebrosity.
 * AUDR, rich, wealthy.
 * AURBODA, prop. AURBODA, snow, rain, storm; to announce whence; a messenger; hence an ambassador.
 * AUSTRI, East, Oriental.
 * BALDUR, prop. BALDR or BALLDR, fire, flame, bold.
 * BALEYGR, Bale-eyed, i. e. endowed with a clear, piercing vision.
 * BAREY, the Frondiferous-isle; an island.
 * BAULVERKR, Evil-worker; producing evil, calamity.
 * BAUMBURR, prob. cog. with bumbr, belly, cavity.
 * BELI, prob. from belja, to bellow.
 * BERGELMIR, Mountain-old, i. e. the old man of the mountain.
 * BIFLINDI, the Inconstant: from bif, motion; and lyndi, disposition, mind.
 * BIFROST, BIF-RAUST, the Tremulous-bridge of the Aerial-bridge, signifying also aerial: a certain space, a mile, a rest.
 * BIL, a moment, an interval, an interstice.
 * BILEYGR, endowed with fulminating eyes, a tempest, especially a fulminating tempest or thunder-storm.
 * BILSKIRNIR, sometimes stormy, and sometimes serene; which, as Thor's mansion prob. denotes the atmosphere, would be a very appropriate term; or storm-stilling, i. e. imparting serenity to the tempest.