Asgard

Definition: Asgard

Asgard

Noun

1. (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes.

Date "Asgard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)

Specialty Definition: Asgard

Domain	Definition
Literature	Asgard The fortress of the Asir or the Northern gods, the Olympos of Scandinavian mythology. It is said to be situated in the centre of the universe, and accessible only by the rainbow-bridge (Bifrost). The word As means a "god," and gard an "enclosure," our "yard." Odin was priest of Asgard before he migrated to the Lake Logur or Moelar Sea. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Asgard

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Asgard is the realm of the gods, the Aesir, in Norse Mythology, thought to be separate from the realm of the mortals, Midgård.

The walls surrounding Asgard were built by Hrimthurs (or Blast), in return for which he was to receive in payment the hand of Freya in marriage and the sun and the moon. This was agreed provided that the work was completed within six months. In order to avoid the payment, Loki lured away Hrimthurs' magic horse, Svadilfari, by transforming himself into a mare and luring the horse away. The job was not completed on time and the gods evaded the payment.

The guardian of Asgard is Heimdall. The plain of Idavoll is right in the middle of Asgard. The Aesir met there for discussions on important issues. The gods met in a hall called Gladsheim and the goddesses met in a hall called Vingolf. They also met daily at Urd, a well beneath Yggdrasil.

Alternative: Åsgard, Ásgardr, Asgardr, or Æsir (Norse spelling;plural)

Other spellings

Common Swedish and Danish form: Asgård
Icelandic: Asgarðr

Asgard is also the second-largest impact crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto, measuring 800 km in diameter.

Related to the mythology, the Asgard is a race of very advanced aliens in the TV series Stargate SG-1

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Asgard."

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Crosswords: Asgard

English words defined with "Asgard": Aesir ♦ Heimdal, Heimdall, Heimdallr. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Asgard": Air-throne, Asyniur ♦ Gods. (references)

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Modern Usage: Asgard

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

How do we contact the Asgard, so that we might ally with their forces? (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

The Asgard would never invent a weapon that propels small weights of iron and carbon alloys, by igniting a powder of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

The Replicators were brought aboard an Asgard ship, for study, before the danger could be fully comprehended. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

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Commercial Usage: Asgard

Domain	Title
Books	Thor: Lord of Asgard (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Asgard

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Asgard impact structure on Callisto. Credit: NASA.
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Usage Frequency: Asgard

"Asgard" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asgard" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	5	157,705

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Asgard

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
asgard	96	asgard stargate	3
asgard secure steel storage	42	asgard character god warrior	3
asgard compact	40	asgard caballeros de	3
asgard universal	40	asgard forseti	3
asgard classic	39	asgard financial	3
asgard box delivery home	39	2 asgard culture gate	2
asgard online	10	asgard immortal thor	2
asgard saint seiya	5	asgard athena poseidon	2
asgard online ragnarok	4	asgard god	2
asgard thor	3	asgard map	2
		asgard ragnarok	2
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Anagrams: Asgard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-r-s"
	-1 letter: agars, drags, grads, ragas.
	-2 letters: agar, agas, dags, drag, gads, gars, grad, rads, raga, rags, saga, sard.
	-3 letters: aas, ads, aga, ars, dag, gad, gar, gas, rad, rag, ras, sad, sag.
	-4 letters: aa, ad, ag, ar, as.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-r-s"
	+1 letter: saggard, smaragd.
	+2 letters: aggrades, damagers, diagrams, drayages, gabbards, garlands, gradates, graduals, grandads, grandams, grandmas, grandpas, gravidas, haggards, laggards, podagras, saggards, saggared, smaragde, smaragds, staggard, yardages.
	+3 letters: arcadings, bandagers, bigarades, carangids, cardigans, decagrams, dekagrams, diagraphs, disparage, dragomans, drainages, galliards, garboards, gardenias, gerardias, graduands, graduates, grandames, granddads, granddams, grassland, guardants, guardians, guardsman, headgears, landgrabs, madrigals, mridangas, paradigms, paygrades, redamages, safeguard, smaragdes, staggards, stargazed, stravaged, tagboards, vanguards.
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