Kids Norse Mythology Word Search

Find 12 Norse mythology words in one grid, from Odin and Thor to Asgard and Yggdrasil, with an answer key.

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Norse Mythology Word Search

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OdinODIN
ThorTHOR
LokiLOKI
FreyaFREYA
YggdrasilYGGDRASIL
AsgardASGARD
MidgardMIDGARD
ValhallaVALHALLA
GiantGIANT
RavenRAVEN
HammerHAMMER
RuneRUNE

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RLOKIHAMMERR

LWBCLWUMAGHA

ANDOIEFEQISR

TMRATMRHAAET

HIHRAVENTNFR

ODINLDYCITSU

RGSASGARDODN

VALHALLALIPE

HRYGGDRASILN

BDDISIARYPPG

HRDCWSWDGYAU

HWIPYYGWEEYS

ODIN, THOR, LOKI, FREYA, YGGDRASIL, ASGARD, MIDGARD, VALHALLA, GIANT, RAVEN, HAMMER, RUNE

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Norse Gods and Goddesses 25

Aegir The sea in the shape of a jotun, who hosts the gods in his halls.
Aesir One of the two families of Norse gods, the one Odin heads.
Baldur The gleaming son of Odin and Frigg, whose loss is a great sorrow to the gods.
Bragi The god of poetry, husband of Idun.
Forseti The son of Baldur and Nanna.
Freya Goddess of love and beauty, who rides in a chariot pulled by two cats.
Freyr God of peace, fair weather and good harvest, and Freya's twin brother.
Frigg Odin's wife and Baldur's mother. Friday bears her name.
Heimdall The watchman of the gods, with keen eyesight and hearing.
Hel Loki's daughter, appointed by Odin to rule the realm of the dead that shares her name.
Hod The blind son of Odin, whom Loki tricks into harming his brother Baldur.
Idun Goddess of youth, keeper of the apples that keep the gods young.
Loki A crafty shape shifter who lives among the gods and often tricks them.
Mimir A figure renowned for knowledge and wisdom, whose counsel Odin seeks.
Nanna Baldur's wife.
Njord God of the sea, wind and fishing, and father of the twins Freyr and Freya.

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Norse Gods and Goddesses, continued

Odin Head of the gods, with one eye, a spear and two ravens. Wednesday carries his name.
Sif The golden-haired goddess married to Thor.
Sigyn Loki's wife.
Skadi A goddess of winter, mountains, skiing and hunting with a bow.
Thor The god of thunder, who swings a hammer and rides in a chariot pulled by goats.
Tyr The god who gave up his right hand to the wolf Fenrir. Tuesday is named after him.
Ullr A god of snow, bows and hunting, and Thor's stepson.
Vanir The other family of gods, tied to fertility and wisdom. Njord, Freyr and Freya belong to it.
Vidar A son of Odin who is foretold to live through Ragnarok.

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Alfheim The home of the light elves, given to the god Freyr.
Asgard The fortified home of the Aesir gods.
Bifrost The burning bridge between Midgard and Asgard, often identified with the rainbow.
Bilskirnir One of the three dwellings of Thor.
Breidablik Baldur's hall. No place is more beautiful.
Bridge Bifrost is one. Heimdall guards it from the jotnar.
Cosmos The whole ordered universe. In the myths a sacred tree stands at its center.
Fensalir The wetland halls where Frigg dwells.
Folkvang Freya's field, where half of those who fall in battle go.
Ginnungagap The grassless void where Ymir lived before the world was made.
Hvergelmir The spring in Niflheim from which all the rivers come.
Jotunheim The land of the jotnar, cut off from gods and humans by barriers.
Midgard Earth, the home of humankind. Its name means middle yard or middle enclosure.
Mist Fine water hanging in the air. Niflheim's name means the home of it.
Muspelheim The realm of fire. Its heat met the cold of Niflheim when creation began.
Niflheim The world of mist, a realm of ice and cold that existed before creation began.
Nine Worlds Where all beings live. They center on the tree Yggdrasil.
Rainbow What the bridge Bifrost is often said to be.
Realm A world or kingdom. Hel rules one that has her own name.
Roots Yggdrasil has three, each reaching to a far-off well or spring.
Valhalla Odin's majestic hall in Asgard. Its name means hall of the slain.
Vanaheim The home of the Vanir gods, where Njord was raised.
Vigrid The field where the immense battle of Ragnarok is to be fought.
Well A source of water. Odin gave an eye to drink from Mimir's, the source of wisdom.
World Tree A name for Yggdrasil, whose branches reach far into the heavens.
Yggdrasil The holy ash tree at the center of the cosmos. The gods go to it every day to hold their assemblies.

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Angrboda The jotun who is mother of Fenrir, Hel and the World Serpent.
Boar Freyr rides one that shines like gold.
Cats Two of them pull Freya's chariot.
Dragon The beast Nidhogg is.
Dwarf One of the cunning smiths of the myths. They forged Thor's hammer.
Eagle A bird perched atop Yggdrasil. The squirrel carries its words down the tree.
Einherjar The fallen warriors who feast in Valhalla and prepare each day for Ragnarok.
Elves Beings described as radiant and beautiful. The light ones live in Alfheim.
Fenrir A monstrous wolf, a child of Loki, whom the gods bound.
Freki One of Odin's two wolves. His name means roughly Glutton.
Garm The dog foretold to break free at Ragnarok and fight the god Tyr.
Geri One of Odin's two wolves. His name means roughly Greed.
Giant The usual English word for a jotun, though jotnar are not always large.
Goats Two of them, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor's chariot.
Horse Sleipnir is one, with eight legs.
Hugin One of Odin's two ravens. Every day he and Munin fly out over the world and bring back news.
Jotun A kind of being often set against the gods. The word is sometimes translated as giant.
Munin One of Odin's two ravens. With Hugin he perches on the god's shoulders.
Nidhogg The dragon that dwells beneath one of the three roots of Yggdrasil.
Norns The beings who shape human destinies and tend the world tree. Often they are three.
Ratatoskr The squirrel that runs up and down Yggdrasil carrying messages.
Raven A large black bird. Two of them serve Odin.
Sleipnir Odin's gray, eight-legged steed, called the best of his kind.
Squirrel The animal Ratatoskr is.
Stags Four of them feed on the highest boughs of Yggdrasil.
Surt The jotun who guards Muspelheim and carries a bright sword.
Troll One of several other words the old texts use for a jotun.
Valkyrie One of the female figures who guide the fallen to Odin's hall.
Wolf Fenrir is a monstrous one, and two more accompany Odin.
World Serpent The sea snake Jörmungandr, so large that he circles Midgard and bites his own tail.
Ymir A primeval being, ancestor of every jotun. The gods made the world from him.

Hammers, Rings and Ships 24

Apples Idun keeps them, and they grant the gods lasting youth.
Belt Thor wears one named Megingjörð.
Brisingamen Freya's necklace.
Chariot A wheeled cart. Thor's is pulled by goats and Freya's by cats.
Cloak Freya's is made of falcon feathers and lets its wearer take a falcon's shape.
Draupnir Odin's gold ring. Every ninth night eight new rings drip from it.
Eye Odin has only one, having given the other for wisdom.
Falcon The bird whose feathers make Freya's cloak.
Gjallarhorn Heimdall's horn. Its sound will be heard in all corners of the world when Ragnarok begins.
Gleipnir The binding that holds the mighty wolf Fenrir.
Gloves Thor wears iron ones.
Gold The metal of Odin's ring and of Sif's new hair. Freya cries tears of it.
Gullinbursti Freyr's dwarf-made boar, with bristles in its mane that glow in the dark.
Gungnir Odin's spear, known for always hitting its target.
Hammer Thor's tool, used as a weapon and also to give blessings.
Mead The drink the valkyries bring to the warriors in Valhalla.
Mistletoe Every object on earth vowed never to hurt Baldur, all but this one plant.
Mjolnir Thor's hammer. People of the Viking Age wore its shape as a pendant.
Naglfar The boat foretold to sail to the field of Vigrid at Ragnarok.
Necklace Jewelry worn at the throat. Freya owns one named Brisingamen.
Ship Skidbladnir is the best of them all.
Skidbladnir Freyr's ship, the best of ships, which folds up like cloth when it is not needed.
Spear A long pointed weapon. Odin's is named Gungnir.
Sword Freyr gives his away, one that can fight on its own.

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Ask The first man, made by the gods. Embla is the first woman.
Battle A fight between armies. The gods meet their enemies in an immense one at Ragnarok.
Creation The making of the world. In the Norse telling it begins where cold meets heat.
Edda A name shared by two Icelandic works of the 13th century, a textbook in prose and a book of poems.
Embla The first woman, made by the gods along with the first man.
Fate What must happen. The Norns shape it for every human.
Friday The weekday that bears Frigg's name.
Futhark A runic alphabet. The Elder one was in use from about AD 150 to 800.
Gods The Aesir and the Vanir are the two families of them.
Iceland The island where most of the Old Norse texts were written down, mainly in the 13th century.
Manuscript A book written by hand. The poems of the Poetic Edda survive in a medieval Icelandic one.
Myth A traditional story of gods and other beings.
Norse Of the North Germanic peoples, whose myths these are.
Norway Most known skalds served the courts of its kings in the Viking Age.
Poem The Poetic Edda is a collection of them, by authors whose names are not known.
Prophecy A telling of what is to come. The gods bound Fenrir because of one.
Ragnarok The foretold end: a great battle, fire and flood, after which the world rises again, cleansed and fertile.
Rebirth A new beginning. After Ragnarok the world rises again, fertile and green.
Rune A letter of the alphabets once used by Germanic peoples. One old poem names Odin as their originator.
Saga An Old Norse tale in prose. Asgard appears in several.
Scandinavia The northern part of Europe whose peoples told these myths.
Skald An Old Norse word meaning poet. Their poems were traditionally made to honor kings.
Sweden Freyr was seen as an ancestor of its royal house.
Thunder The roar of a storm, and the meaning of the old word behind Thor's name.
Thursday The weekday that bears Thor's name.
Trickster A clever breaker of rules. Some scholars describe Loki as one.
Tuesday The weekday named after the god Tyr.
Viking Name of the age, from the 8th to the 11th century, when Thor was highly popular.
Wednesday The weekday that carries Odin's name.
Wisdom Deep knowledge. Odin gave an eye for it.

How this list was compiled: Own work: the 136 words and every meaning were written for this page. Each name and what the myths say of it were checked on October 16, 2026 against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology and its articles on the gods, places, creatures and objects listed, and against the National Museum of Denmark's page The Viking gods (https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/the-viking-gods/). Licence: own work

How it works

This kids Norse mythology word search hides 12 words: Odin, Thor, Loki, Freya, Asgard, Midgard, Yggdrasil, Valhalla, Rune, Raven, Giant and Hammer. Five more lists hold the gods, their worlds, the beasts, the treasures and the stories.

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Five lists, from the gods to Ragnarok

Start from a list splits the 136 words: Norse Gods and Goddesses (25) runs from Odin to Vanir; Asgard, Midgard and Yggdrasil (26) has Bifrost and Niflheim; Wolves, Ravens and Giants (31) has Fenrir and Sleipnir; Hammers, Rings and Ships (24) has Mjolnir and Gungnir; Eddas, Runes and Ragnarok (30) ends on four days of the week.

A one-line story for every name

"Odin's gold ring. Every ninth night eight new rings drip from it." is Draupnir. "The squirrel that runs up and down Yggdrasil carrying messages." is Ratatoskr. Under More options, tick Show clues, not words, and children find each name from its story.

Easy Norse Mythology draws from 66 names of 3 to 5 letters, such as Thor, Loki, Sif, Rune and Wolf.
Names are in plain English letters: Idun, Njord and Aegir stand for Iðunn, Njörðr and Ægir.
The grid drops spaces, so look for WORLDSERPENT, NINEWORLDS and WORLDTREE.

Questions and answers

Who are the main Norse gods?

Odin heads the gods, Thor is the god of thunder, and Loki is the crafty shape shifter who lives among them. Frigg is Odin's wife and Baldur their son. The twins Freyr and Freya belong to a second family of gods, the Vanir.

What is Yggdrasil?

An immense ash tree at the center of the Norse cosmos. The Nine Worlds lie around it, three roots hold it up, and a squirrel named Ratatoskr runs up and down it carrying messages.

Which days of the week are named after Norse gods?

Four. Tuesday is named after Tyr, Wednesday carries Odin's name, Thursday bears Thor's and Friday bears Frigg's. All four days are words in the list Eddas, Runes and Ragnarok.

Where do the Norse myths come from?

Most were written down in Iceland in the 13th century, above all in two books, the Prose Edda and the Poetic Edda. For the myths of another people, print the Greek mythology word search.

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Norse Gods and Goddesses 25

Norse Gods and Goddesses, continued

Asgard, Midgard and Yggdrasil 26

Wolves, Ravens and Giants 31

Hammers, Rings and Ships 24

Eddas, Runes and Ragnarok 30

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