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The names Gefjun and Gefn are both related to the Alagabiae or Ollogabiae, Matron groups. [8] Scholar Richard North theorizes that Old English geofon and Old Norse Gefjun and Freyja's name Gefn may all descend from a common origin; gabia a Germanic goddess connected with the sea, whose name means "giving". [9] Hörn 'flaxen'(?) [5] Gylfaginning ...
The Norns (Old Norse: norn, plural: nornir) are a group of deities in Norse mythology responsible for shaping the course of human destinies. [1] The Norns are often represented as three goddesses known as Urd ( Urðr ), Verðandi , and Skuld , who weave the threads of fate and tend to the world tree, Yggdrasill , ensuring it stays alive at the ...
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Ydun (1858) by Herman Wilhelm Bissen. In Norse mythology, Iðunn is a goddess associated with apples and youth. Iðunn is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
Ásynjur (singular 'ásynja') refers to female members of the Æsir, the principal pantheon in Norse mythology Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ásynjur . Subcategories
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Njörun is a "mysterious ... figure" of whom nothing else is known; Andy Orchard suggests that she may be fictitious. [6] Several scholars have suggested that the stem syllable in her name, Njǫr-, may represent the element *ner-as in Tacitus' earth-goddess Nerthus (*Ner-þuz), whose name is etymologically identical with that of the Norse god Njǫrðr, and that Njörun may therefore be a name ...