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Neorxnawang
Neorxnawang (also Neorxenawang, Neorxnawong; possibly "field of contentment"〔McKinnell (2005:51).〕) is an Old English term used to translate the Christian concept of "paradise" in Anglo-Saxon literature.〔Simek (2007:229).〕 The term is often theorized as originally having referred to a mythological "heavenly meadow", or place without toil or worries, in Germanic paganism.〔Jeep (2001:554).〕
==Etymology==
While the second half of the word, "-''wang''", is widely considered to mean "field" and ''waggs'' appears for "paradise" in Gothic, the first half of the word has not resulted in a standard form, though at least a dozen attempts have been made to interpret it.〔 Scholar Rudolf Simek states that it is possible to consider the term as a Proto-Germanic term for "Asgard" or "Other World" due to the unclear meaning, that Christian authors who used it seemed to have a poor understanding of it as well, and that it corresponds with the North Germanic terms ''Iðavöllr'' (possibly "field of activity" or "the continually renewing, rejuvenating field") and ''Glæsisvellir'' ("the shining fields").〔
19th century scholar Jacob Grimm comments that etymological connections have been proposed between ''Norn'' and ''Neorxnawang'', but says that the theory raises etymological and lore problems: "The A. gen. pl. neorxana, which only occurs in 'neorxena wong' = paradisus, has been proposed, but the abbreviation would be something unheard of, and even the nom. sing. neorxe or neorxu at variance with norn; besides,the Parcae are nowhere found connected with paradise."〔Grimm (1882:405).〕
Late 19th and early 20th century philologist James Bright proposes that the variant ''neorxena-'' element derives from the phrase ''ne wyrcan'', meaning "no working".〔Bright (1913:334).〕
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