BRISINGAMEN

Domain	Definition
Literature	Brisingamen Freyja's necklace made by the fairies. Freyja left her husband Odin in order to obtain this necklace; and Odin deserted her because her love was changed into vanity. It is not possible to love Brisingamen and Odin too, for no one can serve two masters. As a moral tale this is excellent. If Freyja personifies "the beauty of the year," then the necklace means the rich autumn tints and flowers, which (soon as Freyja puts on) her husband leaves her- that is, the fertility of the genial year is gone away, and winter is at hand. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Brisingamen

Brisingamen is said to be the (principally amber) necklace of the goddess Freya from Norse Mythology. When she wore it no man or god could withstand her charms. Obviously a matter of great concern to the other goddesses during springtime when she reputedly wore it. The necklace also gave support to any army which she favoured on the battlefield.

It was forged by four dwarves, and, in order to obtain it, she was obliged to spend a night with each of them in turn. Alternatively, King Alberich gave it to her.

The necklace was stolen by Loki.

The necklace is referenced in the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf, as Brosingamen, wherein the jewel is brought back to "the shining citadel" (presumably Asgard) by Hama, who may well be consonant with the Norse god, Heimdall.

Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop pendant necklace.

Usage Frequency: BRISINGAMEN

"BRISINGAMEN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BRISINGAMEN" is used about 3 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)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRISINGAMEN

Anagrams: BRISINGAMEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-r-s"
	-2 letters: arginines, imaginers, migraines, remaining.
	-3 letters: aginners, arginine, bearings, bemiring, benaming, beriming, bigamies, binaries, braining, braising, breaming, earnings, engrains, gambiers, grannies, imaginer, imagines, inarming, inbeings, ingrains, meanings, migraine, minibars, misbegan, misbegin, reinsman, remising, renaming, renminbi, resining, sabering, sirenian, smearing.
	-4 letters: aginner, airings, ambries, arising, armings, asinine, bangers, banners, beaming, beaning, bearing, begrims, biasing, biennia.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-i-m-n-n-r-s"
	+4 letters: agribusinessman, agribusinessmen.
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Alternative Orthography: BRISINGAMEN

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 52 49 53 49 4E 47 41 4D 45 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-... .-. .. ... .. -. --. .- -- . -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000001 01001101 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#65 &#77 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0049 0053 0049 004E 0047 0041 004D 0045 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (plural)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Expression	Frequency per Day
brisingamen	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

BRISINGAMEN

Specialty Definition: BRISINGAMEN

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