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These are family trees of the Norse gods showing kin relations among gods and other beings in Nordic mythology. Each family tree gives an example of relations according to principally Eddic material however precise links vary between sources. In addition, some beings are identified by some sources and scholars.
Family tree of the Māori gods; N. Family trees of the Norse gods This page was last edited on 12 March 2023, at 14:21 (UTC). Text ...
Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology. Around it exists all else, including the Nine Worlds. Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda compiled in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
The Rök runestone , located in Rök, Sweden, features a Younger Futhark runic inscription that makes various references to Norse mythology. Norse mythology is primarily attested in dialects of Old Norse, a North Germanic language spoken by the Scandinavian people during the European Middle Ages and the ancestor of modern Scandinavian languages.
This is the mythic Yngling family tree based on Historia Norwegiæ, Ynglinga saga, Beowulf and other Old Norse sources. The names of Swedish kings are shown in bold. The names of Swedish kings are shown in bold.
Ask and Embla, the first human beings in Norse mythology, created from trees and whose names may mean "ash" and "elm" Dream of the Rood, an Old English poem describing the crucifixion of Jesus from the point of view of a sentient tree; Hlín, a Norse goddess whose name some scholars have suggested may mean 'maple tree'
In the Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál, there is a list of the sons of Odin, which does not altogether fit with what Snorri writes elsewhere. Nafnaþulur is not in all manuscripts of the Edda and appear independently, and are probably a later addition to Snorri's original composition. [1]
Personifications in Norse mythology (19 P) V. Vanir (2 C, ... This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Family trees of the Norse gods;