Crossword clues for midgard
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 beings; the earth.
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, which later was folk-etymologized as middle earth (late 13c.).
Wikipedia
Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English , Swedish/ Danish Midgård, Old Saxon , Old High German , Gothic Midjun-gards; literally "middle yard") is the name for the world (in the sense of oikoumene) inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology, and specifically one of the Nine Worlds in Norse mythology.
Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.
Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system (CMS) built on the Midgard framework. MidCOM's features include web-based authoring WYSIWYG interfaces and a component interface for installing additional web functionalities, including wikis and blogs.
Midgard is built on the GNOME stack of libraries like GLib and libgda, and has language bindings for C, Python, Objective-C and PHP. Communications between applications written in the different languages happen over D-Bus. The CMS functionalities run on the LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) platform. Midgard can also be used with PHPCR, the PHP implementation of the Java Content Repository standard. In early 2000s (decade) there was also a pure-PHP implementation of the Midgard API called Midgard Lite that has since been re-implemented as the midgard-portable project.
The project follows the synchronized, 6 month release cycle that is implemented by several major open source projects like Ubuntu and GNOME. Because of this, the version numbering reflects the year and month of a release. The version 8.09 Ragnaroek has been designated as a "Long Term Support" release.
Especially the templating and page composition features of Midgard have received praise, earning honorary mentions in several CMS Watch surveys. It also got score of 42 out of 45 in the Celebrity CMS Deathmatch of 2009
Midgard is a fantasy role-playing game from Germany. It was the first role-playing game published in German and the first to be created in Germany.
Midgard is also the name of the world on which the game is usually played (originally named Magira but later renamed due to legal problems). However, the rules of the game are designed in a way that makes it possible to play Midgard on nearly every world.
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 city in the computer role-playing game Tales of Phantasia
- Midgard is the title of a German fantasy novel by Wolfgang Hohlbein
- Midgard, a six headed snake in the anime/manga Oh My Goddess!
- Midgård", a song released by the band Therion, originally on a Secret of the Runes album
- Midgard I, a sailing ship later renamed Midgard IV
- Midgard (band), a Serbian Heavy metal band from Šabac.
- Midgard is one of the three realms in the MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot
- Midgaard (Marquette, Michigan), a historic site
- Midgard Mountain, a mountain located within the Baffin mountain range
- Midgard Glacier in Greenland
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.