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The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan).
Death in Norse paganism was associated with diverse customs and beliefs that varied with time, location and social group, and did not form a structured, uniform system.
Achlys, goddess who symbolizes the mist of death. Goddess of poisons, personification of misery and sadness. Apollo, god of diseases; Atropos, one of the moirai, who cut the thread of life. Charon, a daimon who acted as ferryman of the dead. Erebus, the primordial god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the ...
Rán, the sea goddess, gathers the drowned into her underwater hall. These female goddesses further enforce this image of women as the overseers of death. Women in Norse Mythology then, "collect the dead, women portend death, they care for the dead and women keep the dead.
In Scandinavia, Norse mythology personified death in the shape of Hel, the goddess of death and ruler over the realm of the same name, where she received a portion of the dead. [9] In the times of the Black Plague, Death would often be depicted as an old woman known by the name of Pesta, meaning "plague hag", wearing a black hood. She would go ...
Gullveig (Old Norse: [ˈɡulːˌwɛiɣ]) is a female figure in Norse mythology associated with the legendary conflict between the Æsir and Vanir. In the poem Völuspá, she came to the hall of Odin where she is speared by the Æsir, burnt three times, and yet thrice reborn.
In the Old Norse Völuspá and Gylfaginning, the Norns are three cosmic goddesses of fate who are described sitting by the well of Urðr at the foot of the world tree Yggdrasil. [23] [24] [note 1] In Old Norse texts, the Norns are frequently conflated with Valkyries, who are sometimes also described as spinning. [24]
Greek death goddesses (3 C, 8 P) L. Life-death-rebirth goddesses (5 C, 11 P) P. Persephone (7 C, 21 P) U. Underworld goddesses (6 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Death ...