Is the city name "Anaheim" based on the Norse realm "Vanaheimr"?
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Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum
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No. 1) Anaheim: "Settlers voted to call the community Annaheim, meaning "home by the Santa Ana River" in German. The name later was changed slightly, to Anaheim." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim,_California 2) Vanaheimr: "The name comes from the home of the Vanir, one of the two clans of gods besides the Æsir. The name appears in the Ynglinga saga by Snorri Sturluson. In that work, the gods appear as euhemerized heroes of the past, and the name of their realm is linked to the earthly river Don. It is therefore disputable to count Vanaheimr as one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanaheimr
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