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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 ...
Norse mythology, Sjódreygil and the Norns Faroese stamps 2006 The Norns feature in fiction books such as Oh My Goddess! , The Wicked + The Divine , the Magic Tree House series, and Bernard Cornwell 's The Saxon Stories , in which the protagonist Uhtred refers to them as the "Three Spinners" who control his fate.
The etymology of the name of the goddess Nanna is debated: Some scholars have proposed that the name may derive from a babble word, nanna, meaning "mother". Scholar J. de Vries connects the name Nanna to the root * nanþ - , leading to "the daring one".
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.
The lynx, a type of wildcat, has a prominent role in Greek, Norse, and North American mythology. It is considered an elusive and mysterious creature, known in some Native American traditions as a 'keeper of secrets'. [1] It is also believed to have supernatural eyesight, capable of seeing even through solid objects. [2]
Researchers suggest that the basic meaning of the word dís is "goddess". [5] It usually is said to be derived from the Indo-European root *dhēi-, "to suck, suckle" and a form dhīśana. [6] Scholars have associated the Dísir with the West Germanic Idisi, [4] seeing the initial i-as having been lost early in Old or Proto-Norse.
Ilmr is a figure in Norse mythology who is listed as a goddess and who occurs in skaldic kennings.Her associations and original nature are unknown. Ilmr is attested at two points in the so-called Nafnaþulur appended to the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál: between Iðunn and Bil in a list of ásynjur, and in a list of words that can be used in kennings for "woman".
Fulla (Old Norse: , possibly 'bountiful') or Volla (Old High German, 'plenitude') is a goddess in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology , Fulla is described as wearing a golden band and as tending to the ashen box and the footwear owned by the goddess Frigg , and, in addition, Frigg confides in Fulla her secrets.