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The abode of humans in Norse mythology
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midgard
Word definitions for midgard in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Midgard is the Earth in Norse mythology Midgard may refer to: Midgard (software) , an open-source content management system Midgard (hardware) , Midgard architecture for Embedded GPUs Midgard (role-playing game) , a German role-playing game Midgards, a ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Midgard \Mid"gard\ (m[i^]d"g[aum]rd), n. Also Midgarth \Mid"garth\ (-g[aum]r[th]), Mithgarthr \Mith"garthr\ (Icel. m[-e th]"g[aum]r[th]r'). [Icel. mi[eth]gar[eth]r.] (Teut. Myth.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in Germanic cosmology, "world inhabited by men (opposed to Asgard , the abode of the gods), 1882, from Old Norse miðgarðr , from mið "mid" (see mid ) + Proto-Germanic *gardoz "enclosure, tract" (see yard (n.1)). The Old English cognate was middangeard, ...
Usage examples of midgard.
With his two familiars, the monstrous wolf Fenris and the great Midgard serpent, Loki joined the Jotuns, the giant enemies of the gods.
The Aesir, said the legends, inhabited the fabled city of Asgard, which was separated from the land of Midgard by a deep gulf that was spanned by a wonderful rainbow bridge.
Once Loki had been of the Aesir, till he turned traitor and was prisoned with his two monstrous pets, the wolf Fenris and the Midgard serpent Iormungandr.
We have zero market penetration in either of them, and although we've historically had major penetration in some areas of the Silesian Confederacy and Midgard, the Manties and the Peeps have made life hard on us even there.