LAUFEY, lit.  Frondiferous-isle; an island.

LETTFETI, Lightfoot:  light.

LIFTHRASIR, vital energy, longevity, life; enduring a long time.

LITUR, colour, complexion, form, the face.

LODURR, LODR, LOTHR, from the ob. N. lod, fire.

LOFNA, prop.  LOFN, appears allegorlcally to denote perennial and unchangeable love.

LOGI, Flame; a log of wood burnt or to be burnt.

LOKI, to shut; whence the E. to lock, to finish.

LOPTUR, the Aerial, the Sublime; the air; whence the E. lofty and aloft, also a (hay) loft.

LYNGVI, from lyng or ling, the sweet broom, heath or ling.

MAGNI, the Potent, the Powerful; force, energy.

MANAGARMR, lit. the moon’s wolf; a monster wolf or dog, voracious.

MANI, the moon.

MARDOLL, Sea-nymph; mere, the sea; whence our word mere, as
Windermere, Buttermere, &c:  doll, a nymph; poetically a woman.

MEGINGJARDIR, the Girdle of Might, the Belt of Prowess.

MIDGARD, middleweard, the middleward; see Asgard.  Middling, mean.

MIMIR, or MIMER, to keep In memory; to be fanciful; mindful.

MJODVITNIR, lit. knowing in mead; wine; madja, palm-wine,

MJOLNIR, or MJOLLNIR, prob. from v. melja, to pound, or v. mala, to grind; E. mill, and prob. with L. malleus, a mallet.

MODGUDUR, a valiant female warrior, animosa bellona:  courage; mind; E. mood; gracefulness, delectation.

MODSOGNIR, lit. sucking in courage or vigour.

MOINN, dwelling on a moor.

MUNINN, mind; memory, recollection; G. minne, love.

MUSPELLHEIMR, Muspell’s region or home; used in the sense of elemental or empyreal fire.

NAGLFAR, a nail from nagl, a human nail; according to the Prose Edda, “constructed of the nails of dead men”; a seafaring man.

NAL. G. nadel; A.S. naedl; E. a needle.

NANNA.  Grimm derives this word from the v. nenna, to dare.

NAR, a corpse.

NASTROND, a corpse; The Strand of the Dead.

NAUDUR, necessity; need.

NAUT, ph. from the v. njota, to make use of.

NIDAFJOLL, a rock, a mountain.

NIDHOGG, a phrase used to idicate the new and the waning moon.

NIDI, from nidr, downwards.

NIFLHEIMR, lit.  Nebulous-home—­the shadowy region of death.

NIFLHEL, from nifi and hel. See the latter word.

NIFLUNGAR, the mythic-heroic ghosts of the shadowy realms of death.

NIPINGR, handsome; to contract, to curve.

NJORD, prop.  NJORDR, humid; Sk. nar, nir, water; a wave; and
Neriman, an aquatic man.

NOTT; D. nat; M.G. naht; G. nacht; A.S. niht; E. night.

NYI, these dwarfs were symbolical of the new and the waning moon.