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2. Nerthus - Wikipedia

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   The goddess's name Nerthus (from Proto-Germanic *Nerþuz) is the early Germanic etymological precursor to the Old Norse deity name Njörðr, a male deity who is comparably associated with wagons and water in Norse mythology. Together with his children Freyja and Freyr, the three form the Vanir, a family of deities. The Old Norse record contains ...

3. Norse mythology - Wikipedia

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   Some of the gods heard less of include the apple-bearing goddess Iðunn and her husband, the skaldic god Bragi; the gold-toothed god Heimdallr, born of nine mothers; the ancient god Týr, who lost his right hand while binding the great wolf Fenrir; and the goddess Gefjon, who formed modern-day Zealand, Denmark.

4. Ask and Embla - Wikipedia

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   In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla (Old Norse: Askr ok Embla)—man and woman respectively—were the first two humans, created by the gods. The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda , compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda , composed in the 13th century.

5. Gerðr - Wikipedia

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   In Norse mythology, Gerðr (Old Norse: [ˈɡerðz̠]; "fenced-in" [1]) is a jötunn, goddess, and the wife of the god Freyr. Gerðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in the poetry of skalds.

6. Gambara (seeress) - Wikipedia

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   The name of her son Agio is from PGmc * aʒjō ('sword', 'edge'), [7] while his brother Ibor's name means 'boar' (from PGmc * eƀuraz [8]) the animal sacred to the Norse god Freyr, the god of fertility and the main god of the Vanir clan of the gods, [4] whom it has been argued were the primary gods of the early Lombards in Scandinavia, and ...

7. Seeress (Germanic) - Wikipedia

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   The goddess was popular among Scandinavian women in general, and especially among aristocratic women who profited from corollary authority and power. Older scholarship believed that the aristocratic Norse women passively waited at home for their husbands, but the modern view is that they actively took part in warfare from home with seiðr, a ...

8. Sága and Sökkvabekkr - Wikipedia

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   Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515382-0; Näsström, Britt-Mari (1996). "Freyja and Frigg - two aspects of the Great Goddess" as presented in Shamanism and Northern Ecology: Papers presented at the Regional Conference on Circumpolar and Northern Religion, Helsinki, May 1990.

9. Hel (mythological being) - Wikipedia

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   In chapter 49, High describes the events surrounding the death of the god Baldr. The goddess Frigg asks who among the Æsir will earn "all her love and favour" by riding to Hel, the location, to try to find Baldr, and offer Hel herself a ransom. The god Hermóðr volunteers and sets off upon the eight-legged horse Sleipnir to Hel. Hermóðr ...