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- plural dísir [ˈdiːsez̠]) is a female deity, ghost, or spirit ****ociated with Fate who can be either benevolent or antagonistic toward mortals. Dísir may...
- that the dísir were valkyrie-like guardians of the dead, and indeed in Guðrúnarkviða I 19 the valkyries are even called Herjans dísir "Odin's dísir". The...
- holiday) which was held in honour of the female spirits or deities called dísir (and the Valkyries), from pre-historic times until the Christianization...
- leader of the Disir, she was the first one to be cursed by Bor due to their rebellion when working with Sigurd Göndul – a member of the Disir, she is a coward...
- attested among other Germanic peoples (specifically those involving the dísir, collective female ancestral beings, and Yule), and the Germanic Matres...
- have been ****umed or theorized between the idisi and the North Germanic dísir; female beings ****ociated with fate, as well as the amended place name Idistaviso...
- Freyja herself, the natural leader of the collective female deities called dísir, and the place of the queen's suicide seems thus to be connected with Freyja...
- prey to the Disir. The Disir, still hungry, attack Hela's new Hel as it was not the true Hel they were banished from. Sensing the Disir's ****ault on the...
- pagan burials and small silver female figures interpreted as valkyries or dísir, beings ****ociated with war, fate or ancestor cults. By way of historical...
- In Norse mythology and later Icelandic folklore, landdísir (Old Norse "dísir of the land") are beings who live in landdísasteinar, specific stones located...