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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Norse mythology, Hel, Wild Hunt, Numbers in Norse mythology, Gungnir, Einherjar, Gullveig, Alfrooull, Wyrd, Nine Mothers of Heimdallr, Naglfari, Volsung, Buri, Hersir, Volva, N, Nibelung, Rok Runestone, Berserker, Norse cosmology, Skald, Temple at Uppsala, Wayland the Smith, Nor, Horgr, Dog king, Wulfing, King of the Goths, Shieldmaiden, Sacred tree at Uppsala, Game of the Gods, Saxo's kings of Sweden, Narfi, List of people, items and places in Norse mythology, Ondvegissulur, Ancient kings of Finland, Ottar, Einar, Volsung Cycle, Glenr, Jafnharr. Excerpt: The Wild Hunt is an ancient folk myth prevalent across Northern, Western and Central Europe. The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal, spectral group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, horses, hounds, etc., in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground, or just above it. The hunters may be the dead or the fairies (often in folklore connected with the dead). The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a deity or spirit of either gender, or may be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the Welsh psychopomp Gwyn ap Nudd or the Germanic Woden (or other reflections of the same god, such as Alemannic Wuodan in Wuotis Heer ("Wuodan's Host") of Central Switzerland, Swabia etc.) It has been variously referred to as Wilde Jagd (German: "wild hunt/chase") or Wildes Heer (German: "wild host"), Herla ing (Old English: "Herla's assembly"), Woden's Hunt, Herod's Hunt, Cain's Hunt, the Devil's Dandy Dogs (in Cornwall), Gabriel's Hounds (in northern England), Ghost Riders (in North America), Mesnee d'Hellequin (Old North French: "household of Hellequin"), C n Annwn (Welsh: "hounds of Annwn"), divoka honba or tvani (Czech: "wild hunt," "baiting"), Dziki Gon or Dziki ow (Polish), O...
