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BIFROST

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 921 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA

BIFROST , in Old Norse

mythology

MYTHOLOGY

, the

rainbow

RAINBOW

, which was supposed to

form

FORM (Lat. forma)

the

bridge

BRIDGE

by which the gods passed between

heaven

HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

and

earth

EARTH
EARTH (a word
common
- COMMON
to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
EARTH, FIGURE OF
EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

. It was guarded by

Heimdal

HEIMDAL, or HEIMDALL

, god of

light

LIGHT

.

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