TASK DEFINITION: In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
PROBLEM: In Norse mythology ( a subset of Germanic mythology ) , Elli ( Old Norse " old age " ) is a personification of old age who , in the " Prose Edda " book " Gylfaginning " , defeats Thor in a wrestling match .

SOLUTION: In the " Prose Edda " book " Gylfaginning " , Elli defeats Thor in a wrestling match .

PROBLEM: The name Palaeoptera has been traditionally applied to those ancestral groups of winged insects ( most of them extinct ) that lacked the ability to fold the wings back over the abdomen as characterizes the Neoptera .

SOLUTION: The Palaeoptera is the group of primitive ( basal ) winged insects which do not fold the wings back over the abdomen , as Neoptera do .

PROBLEM: The American Indian Wars ( also known as the Indian Wars or the First Nations Wars ; ) is the collective name for the various armed conflicts that were fought by European governments and colonists , and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers , against various American Indian and First Nation tribes .

SOLUTION:
The American Indian Wars ( also known as the Indian Wars or the First Nations Wars ; ) is the name for the various battles that were fought by European , American , and Canadian governments and colonists against various American Indian and First Nation tribes .