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Definition of Njorth
1. Noun. (Norse mythology) chief of the Vanir; god of the sea and winds and prosperity; father of Frey and Freya; sometimes subsumes Teutonic Nerthus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Njorth
Literary usage of Njorth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... that fossiliferous beds now deposited on the shores of 'NJorth America would
hereafter be liable to be classed with somewhat older European beds. ..."
2. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1844)
"Mr. WIXA>S, of Mississippi, said he came from the far South, not as a speaker,
but as a witness, to bear testimony to the NjOrth, that this Society so far ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Inheritance Taxation: With Practice and Forms by Lafayette Blanchard Gleason, Alexander Otis (1917)
"Njorth Dakota and Wisconsin exempt tangible property of their own residents
located in another state if that state makes a like exemption to its own ..."
4. The Home of the Eddic Poems: With Especial Reference to the Helgi-lays by Sophus Bugge (1899)
"... Spear-Njorth.' We see throughout Old Norse poetry, as it developed in opposition
to the poetry of ..."
5. Proceedings of the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, New York, April by Robert Erskine Ely (1907)
"... United States were, in his opinion, the result of the loss to the country,
both in the Njorth and the South, of the "men of the ideal" in our Civil War. ..."
6. Historical Portraits: Some Notes on the Painted Portraits of Celebrated by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1897)
"Njorth- cote told Leslie that he had often been deceived himself by Jackson's
copies. Leslie mentions in his autobiography that he and Jackson, ..."
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