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Mid⋅gard

  [mid-gahrd]
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–noun Scandinavian Mythology.
the middle earth, home of men, lying between Niflheim and Muspelheim, formed from the body of Ymir.
Origin:
< ON mithgarthr, c. OE middangeard the earth, the abode of men. See mid-, yard 2
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Mid·gard   (mĭd'gärd')   
n.  The part of the world inhabited by people, imagined as a fortress encircled by a huge serpent and built by the Norse gods around the middle region of the universe.

[Old Norse Midhgardhr; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots.]
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Midgard 
"world inhabited by men, in Gmc. cosmology (opposed to Asgard, the abode of the gods), 1882, from O.N. miðgarðr, from mið "mid" (see mid) + P.Gmc. *gardoz "enclosure, tract" (see yard (1)). The O.E. cognate was middangeard, which was later folk-etymologized as middle earth.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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