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NORSE

 

Eir – Goddess of healing herbs.

Elli – Goddess of old age.

Freya – “Queen of the Valkyeries” Goddess of love, sex, passion, fertility.

Called the most beautiful of all Norse goddesses.

Frigg – Goddess of love, marriage and motherhood.

Gefion – Goddess of vegetation and fertility. A shapeshifter.

Gerd – Earth goddess.

Gullveig – Goddess of sorcery, prophecy.

Hel – Goddess of death and the underworld.

Iduna – Goddess of eternal youth.

Nanna – Great goddess of earth.

Nerthus – Earth mother.

Saga – Goddess of the past and of good memories.

Sjofna – Goddess of love.

Var – Goddess of contracts and agreements.

VALKYRIES – Blond haired, blue-eyed Norse females who wore battle helmets and flew on supernatural horses over the battlefields. They carry out the will of ODIN to determine the winners of the battles. Their primary purpose was to collect the souls of the bravest dying warriors who deserved afterlife to Valhalla. While in Valhalla they discard the battle armor for pure white robes and serve the warriors they brought there.

 

There are conflicting stories that they were actually opposing the will of ODIN and some that say they didn’t ride horses but wolves instead or they turned into ravens to fly over the battlefields.


Still others say there are two different kinds of Valkyries. One says there were 9 who were the divine ones and then the Vaetter, the half humans who were seen by those with esp.