: Just to interject: although "garden" is a
: cognate of the Old Norse "gard," the two
: words aren't synonymous; "gard" has much
: more to do with "guard" meaningwise.
: "Gard" generally means some sort of
: habitation and/or cultivated region (a farming complex
: or a town, usually) enclosed by defensive walls. So if
: you're trying to work out possible meanings for, say,
: Myrgard, it's probably better to go with "----
: Town" or even "---- Keep" than
: "---- Garden." :-)
Utterly debatable in a thousand ways. Most notably, the fact that Midgard is NOT a fortress of any kindit's the whole of the Earth, or a continent of it nor are any of the other lands in Norse Mythology which have the suffix of "gard," most notably Helgard and Asgard. Those are entire worlds and continents, hardly fortress like.
Therefore, Myrgard can mean either be the "Garden of the Mire (the Land of Mire, the Swampland, etc)" or "Fortress of the Mire." The latter seems very strange, and for good reason; "guard" is most likely from the Latin root, not the Norse one: "guardia." Dictionaries may have either etymology. So, we can speculate that the word "Myrgard", logically, can mean either "Fortress of the Mire" or "Swampy Land." They both make sense.
