Nanna, in the Norse mythology the wife of Balder, the sun-god; distinguished for her conjugal fidelity, threw herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, and descended to the shades along with him; when the pair were entreated to return, he sent his ring to Odin and she her thimble to Frigga.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Nanking * Nansen, Fridtjof