Embla
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Embla
< Old Norse, probably akin to almr elm
Example Sentences
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Embla and Ask stayed in Midgard, safe behind the wall the gods had made from Ymir’s eyelashes.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
Ask and Embla were the father and the mother of all of us: every human being owes its life to its parents and their parents and their parents before them.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
Go far enough back, and the ancestors of each of us were Ask and Embla.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
Last of all they gave the two people they had made names: the man they called Ask, or Ash Tree; the woman they called Embla, or Elm.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
It only remained that they should be named, and they were called Ask and Embla, the names of the trees from which they had been formed.
From Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by Wilmot-Buxton, E. M. (Ethel Mary)
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