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Æsir (Old Norse; singular: áss) or ēse (Old English; singular: ōs) are gods in
Germanic paganism. In Old
Nordic religion and mythology, the
precise meaning...
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Norse mythology, the
Æsir–Vanir War was a
conflict between two
groups of
deities that
ultimately resulted in the
unification of the
Æsir and the
Vanir into...
- gods (the
other being the
Æsir) and are the
namesake of the
location Vanaheimr (Old
Norse "Home of the Vanir").
After the
Æsir–Vanir War, the
Vanir became...
- In
Nordic mythology,
Asgard (Old Norse: Ásgarðr; "enclosure of the
Æsir") is a
location ****ociated with the gods. It
appears in
several Old
Norse sagas...
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legendary conflict between the
Æsir and Vanir. In the poem Völuspá, she came to the hall of Odin (Hár)
where she is
speared by the
Æsir,
burnt three times, and...
- The
Horses of the
Æsir are
horses present in
Norse mythology which are
ridden by the
Æsir.
Their main
purpose is to be
ridden daily to
Yggdrasil in order...
- Njörðr's
status as once
having been a
hostage from the
Vanir to the
Æsir during the
Æsir-Vanir War, that the "daughters of Hymir" once used Njörðr "as a ****pot"...
- Fenrir's own
request because he did not
trust that the
Æsir would let him go. As a result, when the
Æsir refused to
release him, he bit off Týr's hand at a...
- Morgoth.
Critics such as John
Garth have
noted that the
Valar resemble the
Æsir, the gods of Asgard. Thor, for example,
physically the
strongest of the gods...
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Frigg (/frɪɡ/; Old Norse: [ˈfriɡː]) is a goddess, one of the
Æsir, in
Germanic mythology. In
Norse mythology, the
source of most
surviving information...
