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[ad_1] noun Scandinavian Mythology.
- the home of the Aesir and location of Valhalla and the palaces of the individual gods: connected with the earth by the rainbow bridge, Bifrost.
noun
- Norse myth the dwelling place of the principal gods, the Aesir
home of the gods in Norse religion, from Old Norse ass “god,” from Proto-Germanic *ansu- (cf. Old High German ansi, Old English os, Gothic ans “god”), from PIE *ansu- “spirit” (cf. first element in Ahura Mazda, from Avestan) + Old Norse garðr “enclosure, yard, garden” (see yard (n.1)).