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* [[Vertebrate with Extra Limbs]] - Odin's horse had eight legs.
* [[Volleying Insults]]: Two of the Poetic Eddas (''Harbardsljoth'' and ''Lokasenna'') consist of pretty much nothing ''but'' this.
* [[War in Heaven]]: The Aesir–Vanir War is a key event in Norse myth. Called "the first war in the world", it starts when the Vanir Gullveig enters Odin's hall and is attacked, but its roots seem to extend back to a dispute over which group of gods should get the benefit of mortal tribute and worship (on which the Aesir had a monopoly at the time). A failure to reach an initial truce results in all-out war, with massive armies on both sides laying waste to vast swaths of land. In the end, the Aesir and Vanir both tired of the war and negotiated a new and lasting truce which resulted in the two bands of gods becoming one. Oddly, one other result of the war was the invention of poetry.
* [[The World Tree]]: Yggdrasil, which is the [[Ur Example]] ''and'' [[Trope Codifier]] for it.▼
* [[War Is Glorious]]: So glorious that fighting for untold ages is considered heaven. It's helped by the fact the warriors are all resurrected every night for drinking and partying. The days of endless fighting served as training for Ragnarök, when the einhärjar would be called upon to do battle with the followers of Surtr.
* [[Warrior Heaven]]: Valhalla may be the [[Ur Example]], as a place where the bravest warriors were brought by the Valkyries to eat, party, and kill each other every day for all eternity until Ragnarök.▼
* [[The War to End All Wars]]: Ragnarök.
▲* [[Warrior Heaven]]: Valhalla may be the [[Ur Example]], as a place where the bravest warriors were brought by the Valkyries to eat, party, and kill each other every day for all eternity until Ragnarök.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Balder was invulnerable to everything except mistle. [[Rule of Cool|In the version recorded by Saxo, however, it was a sword named Mysteltainn (Mistletoe) that could only be found in the Underworld.]]
** Given that mistle is ''poisonous'', a sharp dart may well have been sufficient to kill him.
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* [[Wizard Classic]]: Stories of Odin wandering the lands disguised as a simple traveller serve as an [[Ur Example]].
* [[World of Badass]]: Because being such will get you to [[Warrior Heaven]].
▲* [[The World Tree]]: Yggdrasil, which is the [[Ur Example]] ''and'' [[Trope Codifier]] for it.
* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman|World's Most Beautiful Man]]: Balder.
* [[Would Not Hit a Girl]]: The gods decided against killing Skadi while she was invading Asgard, since it was considered an act of ''nīþ'' (dishonour) to hurt a woman. However, that did not stop Thor from killing Thrym's daughters after he got his hammer back. Nor did it stop him from breaking the spines of two other giantesses.
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