Mythological heritage of Scandinavian lexemes in O. Scott's fantasy novel "Twilight of the Gods"

The current fantasy genre is inspired by the folklore and mythological tradition whose heritage is investigated in the article using the example of Scandinavian lexemes. The subject for research is a fantasy novel Twilight of the Gods by O. Scott. It describes the events taking place in Sweden at the beginning of the 13th century, when the crusade of Conrad the White was going to eradicate paganism. A large number of Scandinavian lexemes are used in the novel: they are given in italics with all the diacritical marks and special letters that were traditionally found in the Old Norse language: ð, á, ú, é, æ, ó. In total, there are 30 different lexemes in the novel, but the article turns to the most frequent ones. Based on the results of the work, it is concluded that the use of traditional words not only diversified the text of the novel Twilight of the Gods adding some folklore colors to it, but also showed the beauty of the northern European languages.