Definition of Ithunn

1. Noun. (Norse mythology) goddess of spring and wife of Bragi; guarded the apples that kept the gods eternally young.

Exact synonyms: Idun
Category relationships: Norse Mythology
Generic synonyms: Norse Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ithunn

Italish
Italo-
Italo Calvino
Italo disco
Italophile
Italophiles
Italophones
Italy
Itanagar
Itelmen
Ithaca
Ithacan
Ithacans
Ithaka
Ithaki
Ithunn (current term)
Ito's nevus
Ito-Reenstierna test
Ito cells
Itokawa
Itylus
Itzcoatl
Iva xanthifolia
Ivalo
Ivan
Ivan III
Ivan III Vasilievich
Ivan IV
Ivan Iv Vasilievich
Ivan Ivanovitch

Literary usage of Ithunn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Northern Antiquities: Or, An Historical Account of the Manners, Customs by Paul Henri Mallet, Walter Scott (1847)
"... to take a pleasant walk; but such etym. are like too many of P. Mag's., quite conjectural. IDUNA, prop. IDUNN or Ithunn: dt. etym. P. Meg. derives id, ..."

2. Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen by Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Franz Joseph Mone (1822)
"Die bestimmte Zeit, wann Loki seinen Eid lösen mufs, and die Ithunn mit ihren goldenen Aepfeln aus der ..."

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