(Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes
as'gärd, n. the heaven of Norse mythology, abode of the twelve gods and twenty-six goddesses, and of heroes slain in battle. [Ice. asgardhr, [=a]ss, a god, gardhr, an enclosure.]
In Teut. and Scand. Myth. , the abode of the Aesir, the gods whose name answers to the Asuras of the Rig Veda, from the root as, to breathe, hence to be.
