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List of valkyrie names. "Walkyrien" (1905) by Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr), the valkyries ...
Rindr (Old Norse: [ˈrindz̠]) or Rinda (Latin) (sometimes Anglicized Rind) is a female character in Norse mythology, alternatively described as a giantess or a goddess or a human princess. She was impregnated by Odin and gave birth to the avenger of Baldr 's death—in the Old Norse sources, Váli.
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. After the funeral, the individual could go to a range of afterlives including Valhalla (a hall ruled by Odin for the warrior elite who die in battle), Fólkvangr (ruled over by ...
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In Norse mythology, Sága (Old Norse pronunciation: [sɑːɣɑ], possibly meaning "seeress" [1]) is a goddess associated with the location Sökkvabekkr (Old Norse: [ˈsøkːwɑˌbekːz̠]; "sunken bank", "sunken bench", or "treasure bank" [2]). At Sökkvabekkr, Sága and the god Odin merrily drink as cool waves flow. Both Sága and Sökkvabekkr ...
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In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla (Old Norse: Askr ok Embla)—man and woman respectively—were the first two humans, created by the gods. The pair are attested in both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, composed in the 13th century. In both sources, three gods, one of whom is ...
Frigg (/ frɪɡ /; Old Norse: [ˈfriɡː]) [1] is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir. In wider Germanic mythology, she is known in Old High ...