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In Norse mythology
Norse mythology

Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the beliefs, myths and legends of the Norse paganism of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Faroe Islands and Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled....
, Gimlé (alternately Gimli) was a place where the survivors of Ragnarok
RagNaRok

Ragnar?k is the fifth album, released in 1995 on Metal Blade Records, by the Rock and roll/Heavy metal music/punk rock band GWAR.This album contains the most varied vocal stylings of any GWAR album, as the majority of the band lends their lungs to the tracklist , as well as guest villain Cardinal Syn....
 were to live. It is mentioned in the Prose Edda
Prose Edda

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda or simply Edda, is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Eddic poetry containing tales from Norse mythology....
 and Völuspá
Völuspá

V?lusp? is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end related by a v?lva addressing Odin....
 and described as the most beautiful place on Earth
Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather...
, more beautiful than the Sun
Sun

The Sun , a G V star, is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 98.6% of the Solar System's mass....
.








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In Norse mythology
Norse mythology

Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the beliefs, myths and legends of the Norse paganism of the North Germanic language people, including those who settled on Faroe Islands and Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled....
, Gimlé (alternately Gimli) was a place where the survivors of Ragnarok
RagNaRok

Ragnar?k is the fifth album, released in 1995 on Metal Blade Records, by the Rock and roll/Heavy metal music/punk rock band GWAR.This album contains the most varied vocal stylings of any GWAR album, as the majority of the band lends their lungs to the tracklist , as well as guest villain Cardinal Syn....
 were to live. It is mentioned in the Prose Edda
Prose Edda

The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri's Edda or simply Edda, is an Old Norse language Icelandic collection of four sections interspersed with excerpts from earlier skaldic and Eddic poetry containing tales from Norse mythology....
 and Völuspá
Völuspá

V?lusp? is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end related by a v?lva addressing Odin....
 and described as the most beautiful place on Earth
Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather...
, more beautiful than the Sun
Sun

The Sun , a G V star, is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 98.6% of the Solar System's mass....
.

Contemporary uses


  • There is a small town in Manitoba
    Manitoba

    Manitoba is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 647,797 square kilometres and a population of 1,207,959 , with more than half located within the Winnipeg Capital Region ....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    , named Gimli
    Gimli, Manitoba

    The town and municipality of Gimli are located in the Interlake region of south-central Manitoba, Canada. Located on the western shore of Lake Winnipeg, about 75 kilometres north of the provincial capital Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gimli is close to the small towns of Winnipeg Beach,Fraserwood, Arnes, Hnausa, Riverton, and Arborg....
    , founded by Icelandic settlers in 1875. It is noted for a large Viking
    Viking

    A Viking is one of the Norsemen explorers, warriors, merchants, and Piracy who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century....
     statue and annual .
  • Gimle is also a part of the Frogner
    Frogner

    Frogner is a borough of the city of Oslo, Norway. In addition to traditional Frogner, the borough incorporates Bygd?y, Uranienborg-Majorstuen and Uranienborg-Majorstuen....
     district in Oslo. Most known is the Gimle Cinema
    Movie theater

    A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
    .
  • Gimle
    Vidkun Quisling

    Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonss?n Quisling was a Norway army officer and politician. He worked with Fridtjof Nansen during the famine in the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence in the Senterpartiet government 1931-1933....
     was also the name of the house lived in by Vidkun Quisling
    Vidkun Quisling

    Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonss?n Quisling was a Norway army officer and politician. He worked with Fridtjof Nansen during the famine in the Soviet Union, and served as Minister of Defence in the Senterpartiet government 1931-1933....
     in Oslo
    Oslo

    is the Capital and largest List of cities in Norway in Norway.Metropolitan Oslo or the Greater Oslo Region makes up the third largest urban area in Scandinavia after Metropolitan Stockholm and Metropolitan Copenhagen....
     during World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
    .
  • Gimle is the name of a non-profit live music venue in Roskilde
    Roskilde

    Roskilde Roskilde train station is a major stop between Copenhagen and the region of Denmark located to its west. The city is an economic center for the region....
    . Supported by the Roskilde Festival
    Roskilde Festival

    Roskilde Festival is held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the four biggest annual Music festival in Europe . It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandf?r and Jesper Switzer M?ller, and promoter Carl Fischer....
    , the venue is run by volunteers.
  • The name has a literary and film connection to the character of Gimli
    Gimli (Middle-earth)

    Gimli is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, featured in The Lord of the Rings....
     Elf-friend, the dwarf
    Dwarf (Middle-earth)

    In the Tolkien's legendarium of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Dwarf are a race inhabiting the world of Arda, a fictional prehistoric Earth which includes the continent Middle-earth....
     member of the Fellowship of the Ring. In the Nynorsk
    Nynorsk

    Nynorsk is one of the two official Norwegian language standard languages, the other being Bokm?l. Just above 10% of the Norwegian population use Nynorsk as their primary written language....
     translation of The Lord of the Rings
    The Lord of the Rings

    The Lord of the Rings is an Epic poetry high fantasy novel written by Philology J.R.R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work....
    , he appears under the name of Gimle.


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