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Many cultures around the world have stories about groups of nine women.In Great Britain they occur in a variety of situations. In Scotland there are references to Nine Maidens, purportedly a group of, [clarification needed] [1] and there were a number of wells dedicated to them, [2] but like all similar groupings would appear to have had their origin in pre-Christian times.
The nine sorceresses or nine sisters (Welsh: naw chwaer) are a recurring element in Arthurian legend in variants of the popular nine maidens theme from world mythologies. . Their most important appearances are in Geoffrey of Monmouth's introduction of Avalon and the character that would later become Morgan le Fay, and as the central motif of Peredur's story in the Peredur son of Efrawg part of ...
Heimdallr Lifted by the Nine Wave Maidens by Karl Ehrenberg depicts Heimdallr's mothers as 'wave maidens' (German Wellenjungfrauen), 1882 Some scholars have linked the Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán with the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr , an identification that would mean that Heimdallr was thus born from the waves of the sea.
In Norse mythology, the Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are nine sisters who gave birth to the god Heimdallr. The Nine Mothers of Heimdallr are attested in the Prose Edda , written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; in the poetry of skalds ; and possibly also in a poem in the Poetic Edda , a book of poetry compiled in the 13th century from ...
Menglöð sits with the nine maidens, including Eir, on Lyfjaberg (1893) by Lorenz Frølich. In Norse mythology, Eir (Old Norse: , "protection, help, mercy" [1]) is a goddess or valkyrie associated with medical skill.
Nine Maidens may refer to: Boskednan stone circle, traditionally known as the Nine Maidens; Nine Maidens stone circle, near Belstone on Dartmoor; Nine Maidens stone row, near St Columb Major in Cornwall; Nine Maidens Downs, near Four Lanes in Cornwall; The Nine Maidens, an album by John Renbourn; Nine maidens (mythology), a theme in mythology
Image by E. Wallcousins, 1912. "In Caer Pedryvan, four its revolutions; In the first word from the cauldron when spoken, From the breath of nine maidens it was gently warmed". Preiddeu Annwfn or Preiddeu Annwn (English: The Spoils of Annwfn) is a cryptic poem of sixty lines in Middle Welsh, found in the Book of Taliesin.
Just as in Greek myth the Oceanids are the daughters of the titan sea god Oceanus, in Norse mythology—specifically the Poetic Edda—the jötunn (similar to a giant) sea god Ægir has nine daughters. The name of one of these means "wave" (Welle in German) and is a possible source for Wellgunde's name. [13]