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Týr, a Norse god of war. Dís, a group of lesser goddesses who are sometimes connected with battle magic; valkyrie may be a kenning for them; Freyja, goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death; Odin, god associated with wisdom, war, battle, and death; Týr, god associated with law, justice, victory, and ...
Host-Tyr or God of Hosts Skáldskaparmál: Hildolfr Battle Wolf Hjaldrgegnir Engager of Battle Hjaldrgoð God of battle Hjálmberi Hjalmberi Helmet Bearer Gylfaginning, Grímnismál (46), þulur, Óðins nǫfn (2) Hjarrandi Screamer Óðins nǫfn (4) Hléfreyr Famous/barrow lord Óðins nǫfn (5) Hleifruðr Wayfinder Óðins nǫfn (4) Hnikarr ...
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, as imagined by Georg von Rosen (1886). Odin (/ ˈ oʊ d ɪ n /; [1] from Old Norse: Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and ...
"Týr" by Lorenz Frølich, 1895. Týr (/ t ɪər /; [1] Old Norse: Týr, pronounced) is a god in Germanic mythology and member of the Æsir.In Norse mythology, which provides most of the surviving narratives about gods among the Germanic peoples, Týr sacrifices his right hand to the monstrous wolf Fenrir, who bites it off when he realizes the gods have bound him.
In Norse mythology, Naglfar or Naglfari (Old Norse "nail farer") is a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. During the events of Ragnarök, Naglfar is foretold to sail to Vígríðr, ferrying hordes of monsters that will do battle with the gods.
High, Just-As-High, and Third converse with Gangleri.Art from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. Hár, Jafnhár [ˈjɑvnˌhɑːrː], and Þriði (anglicized as Thridi) [a] are three men on thrones who appear in the Prose Edda in the Gylfaginning ("The Beguiling of Gylfi"), one of the oldest and most important sources on Norse mythology.
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Hrungnir (Old Norse: [ˈhruŋɡnez̠], 'brawler') is a jötunn in Norse mythology. He is described as made of stone and is ultimately killed in a duel with the thunder god Thor. Prior to his demise, Hrungnir engaged in a wager with Odin in which Odin stakes his head on his horse, Sleipnir, being faster than Hrungnir's steed Gullfaxi.