What is a Gode?

[lch]

I think you can find those in the Edda. Vanir live in Vanaheimr. Skrattinn seems to be another name for Satan, yes.

Van seems to mean something like "the Glamorous", "the Habituals", "the familiar gods of fields and meadows".

Edit: the others are right, goði is a priest. And the hersir was a military commander.

[Spendios]

ON a related note, what is the meaning of asmeg ? Does those people appear in nordic mythology too ?

[Gregstrom]

Originally Posted by lch

Skrattinn seems to be another name for Satan, yes.

Presumably 'Old Scratch' would be derived from that, then. Cool.

[Singularity24601]

Originally Posted by lch

I think you can find those in the Edda. Vanir live in Vanaheimr. Skrattinn seems to be another name for Satan, yes.

Van seems to mean something like "the Glamorous", "the Habituals", "the familiar gods of fields and meadows".

Edit: the others are right, goði is a priest. And the hersir was a military commander.

(I'd render 'ð' as 'th' instead of 'd'.)

I couldn't find any references to Asmegs on the Googlosphere. Anyone know of any resources or alternative spellings?

[lch]

Originally Posted by Singularity24601

(I'd render 'ð' as 'th' instead of 'd'.)

Well, if you want. The english 'th' is being pronounced too closely to 's' for me though, while 'ð' is phonetically equivalent to the greek delta and was mostly replaced by 'd' according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ð

Originally Posted by Singularity24601

I couldn't find any references to Asmegs on the Googlosphere. Anyone know of any resources or alternative spellings?

Maybe ásmegin. I don't speak norse, but that's what you can find in the norse Gylfaginning and Skáldskaparmál versions of the younger Edda. Wikipedia unfortunately only lists a band of the same name. Literally As-strength or Áss-power, the Wikipedia article says that it means "by/with the might of the gods".