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 *LODURR, LODR, LOTHR, from the ob. N. lod, fire.
 * LOFNA, prop. LOFN, appears allegorically to denote perennial and unchangeable love.
 * LOGI, Flame; a log of wood burnt or to be burnt.
 * LOKI, to shut; whence the E. to lock, to finish.
 * LOPTUR, the Aerial, the Sublime; the air; whence the E. lofty and aloft, also a (hay) loft.
 * LYNGVI, from lyng or ling, the sweet broom, heath or ling.
 * MAGNI, the Potent, the Powerful; force, energy.
 * MANAGARMR, lit. the moon's wolf; a monster wolf or dog, voracious.
 * MANI, the moon.
 * MARDOLL, Sea-nymph; mere, the sea; whence our word mere, as Windermere, Buttermere, &c: doll, a nymph; poetically a woman.
 * MEGINGJARDIR, the Girdle of Might, the Belt of Prowess.
 * MIDGARD, middleweard, the middleward; see Asgard. Middling, mean.
 * MIMIR, or MIMER, to keep in memory; to be fanciful; mindful.
 * MJODVITNIR, lit. knowing in mead; wine; madja, palm-wine,. [sic]
 * MJOLNIR, or MJOLLNIR, prob. from v. melja, to pound, or v. mala, to grind; E. mill, and prob. with L. malleus, a mallet.
 * MODGUDUR, a valiant female warrior, animosa bellona: courage; mind; E. mood; gracefulness, delectation.
 * MODSOGNIR, lit. sucking in courage or vigour.
 * MOINN, dwelling on a moor.
 * MUNINN, mind; memory, recollection; G. minne, love.
 * MUSPELLHEIMR, Muspell's region or home; used in the sense of elemental or empyreal fire.
 * NAGLFAR, a nail from nagl, a human nail; according to the Prose Edda, "constructed of the nails of dead men"; a sea-faring man.
 * NAL. G. nadel; A. S. nædl; E. a needle.
 * NANNA. Grimm derives this word from the v. nenna, to dare.
 * NAR, a corpse.
 * NASTROND, a corpse; The Strand of the Dead.
 * NAUDUR, necessity; need.
 * NAUT, ph. from the v. njota, to make use of.
 * NIDAFJOLL, a rock, a mountain.
 * NIDHOGG, a phrase used to idicateindicate [sic] the new and the waning moon.
 * NIDI, from nidr, downwards.
 * NIFLHEIMR, lit. Nebulous-home—the shadowy region of death.
 * NIFLHEL, from nifl and hel. See the latter word.
 * NIFLUNGAR, the mythic-heroic ghosts of the shadowy realms of death.
 * NIPINGR, handsome; to contract, to curve.