Viking and Norse Culture, Mythology, Spiritualism and History
Son of Odin, husband to Idunn, Bragi, the poet. In fact, Old Norse poetry was possibly named after Bragi, as "Bragr". Bragi would have to be one of the coolest dudes in Asgard to hang out with. Just a personal thought there as I write poetry and play every instrument I can get my hands... Continue Reading →
Nott is the mother of Jord, Grandmother of Thor and is the personification of Night. Dagr is sometimes written as the son of Nott, night personified, or Jord, Earth personified, depending on the source. In all of these Dagr's father is Dellingr. Dagr is the personified day. Dellingr was once a well known god, as... Continue Reading →
Jord is the daughter of Nott, the personification of Night. She is also the mother of Thor. The name Jord is a personification honorific like her mother Nott, "Night". Jord is also called Fjörgyn, Hlóðynn, Fold, and Grund. All these names mean "Earth". The sacred female. Just as the Earth gives birth to life, so... Continue Reading →
Frigg, wife of Odin. Mother of Baldr. She is an Earth Goddess and Aesir. She is also well known as a practitioner of seidr, which is a type of nature magic, but the word itself means "Ways and Customs". Frigg and Freya have been said, by some, to be the same goddess in previous cognate... Continue Reading →
For the short version of general Norse Mythology, Fjorgynn is Friggs father. For those who want to know more... (I will be using the word "Cognate a lot, so just to clear it up, here is Cognate defined. "Related in origin, as certain words in genetically related languages descended from the same ancestral root") ...this... Continue Reading →
The last of the Sons of Borr and brother to Odin, Vili and Ve. Hoenir, while being obscure helped with the creation of Ask and Embla, the first humans. He is noted as a terrifying battle commander but relies on Mimir for wisdom.He has been called the "Silent God" of the Aesir in MImirs absence... Continue Reading →
We know very little about these Sons of Borr other than that they are the brothers of Odin and co-conspirators with Odin himself in the slaying of Ymir and the shaping of the universe as we know it. The two positions here are that either Snorri invented these two - or- they were much more... Continue Reading →
Odin, from Old Norse: Óðinn, is a widely revered god in Germanic mythology. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates Odin with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and projects him as the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider... Continue Reading →
Bestia is the wife of Borr, mother of Odin, Vili, and Vé. Nothing more is written of her.
Borr is the son of Buri, husband of Bestla and father of Odin, Ve, Ville and Hoenir. Not much is written of him other than being part of Odin's ancestry.
Odin's Insight 