- In
Germanic mythology, an idis (Old Saxon,
plural idisi) is a
divine female being. Idis is
cognate to Old High
German itis and Old
English ides, meaning...
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Merseburg Incantations call upon
female beings—
Idisi—to bind and
hamper an army. The
incantation reads: Once the
Idisi sat, sat here and there, some
bound fetters...
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connection between the name and the
idisi mentioned in one of the two
Merseburg Incantations and says that "these
Idisi are
obviously a kind of valkyrie...
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century to Idisiaviso,
meaning "plain of the
Idisi" or "women's meadow".
Rudolf Simek states that "as the
Idisi are
supposed to have an
influence in the outcome...
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valkyries to
place fetters,
which would connect the
valkyries to the
earlier Idisi. The name
Svipul may be
descriptive of the
influence the
valkyries have...
- High
German itis and Old
Norse dís are
cognates that all mean "lady", and
idisi appears as the name of the
Valkyries in the only
surviving pagan source...
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collectively in
surviving references. The
North Germanic dísir and West
Germanic Idisi are
believed by some
scholars to be
related due to
linguistic and mythological...
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Since Jacob Grimm,
scholars have
sought to
connect the
disir with the
idisi found in the Old High
German First Merseburg Charm and with a conjecturally...
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created by
Jason Katims,
based on the
Israeli series On the
Spectrum by Dana
Idisis and
Yuval Shafferman. The 8-episode
series premiered on
Amazon Prime Video...
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scholar Jacob Grimm proposed a
potential etymological connection to the
idisi.
Grimm states that "with the
original form idis the
goddess Idunn may possibly...
