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Midgard
Sign in to save350px|right|thumb|The runes a:miþkarþi, Old Norse á Miðgarði, meaning "in Midgard" – "in Middle Earth", on the [[Fyrby Runestone (Sö 56) in Södermanland, Sweden.]]
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350px|right|thumb|The runes a:miþkarþi, Old Norse á Miðgarði, meaning "in Midgard" – "in Middle Earth", on the [[Fyrby Runestone (Sö 56) in Södermanland, Sweden.]]
In Germanic cosmology, Midgard (an anglicised form of Old Norse ; Old English , Old Saxon , Old High German , and Gothic Midjun-gards; "middle yard", "middle enclosure") is the name for Earth (equivalent in meaning to the Greek term : oikouménē, "inhabited") inhabited by and known to humans in early Germanic cosmology. The Old Norse form plays a notable role in Norse cosmology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Midgard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.