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Pages in category "Norse goddesses" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Álfröðull; F. Freyja;
Like other Norse goddesses, her name was applied widely in Scandinavia to, for example, "sweetmeats or to stout carthorses". [81] Vanadís, one of Freyja's names, is the source of the name of the chemical element vanadium, so named because of its many colored compounds. [82]
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr ), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain ...
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. ... Other Norse divinities and spirits. Beyla; Dís; Elli; Móðguðr; Nótt ...
Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia as the Nordic folklore of the modern period.
The Norse night goddess Nótt riding her horse, in a 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night , or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Frigg (/ f r ɪ ɡ /; Old Norse: ) [1] is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir.