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Norse Deities

Aegir - God of the sea, strength of the ocean for good or bad

Aesir - Race of the gods founded by Odin (In a constant feud with the Vanir, another family of gods)

Alaisiagae - War goddesses (see Valkyries)

Alcis - Twin gods of the sky

Alfheim - The realm beyond Asgard (home of the gods) where the fair elves live

Andarvi - A dwarf

Angrboda - A giantess who mothered Loki's monstrous children including Hel, Fenrir and the Midgard Serpent

Baldur - 'The Beautiful' Heroic god son of Odin

Boe - Son of Odin and Rinda who avenged the death of Baldur

Bor - Son of Buri and father of Odin, Vili and Ve

Bragi - God of poetry

Donar - God of thunder

Elli - A woman who bested Thor is a wrestling competition. Her name meaning 'old age'

Fafnir - A dragon god son of Hreidmar

Fenrir (Fenris Wolf) - Child of Loki and Angrboda

Fjorgynn - Mother of Thor representing the earth

Forseti - Son of Baldur, divine giver of good laws

Freyja - Goddess of sex (daughter of Njord, twin sister of Freyr)

Freyr - God of fertility (son of Njord, twin brother of Freyja)

Frigg - Goddess of fertility (wife of Odin, mother of Baldur, queen of asgard)

Garm - Hound of the underworld. Possibly as aspect of Fenrir, he will break free at the Ragnarok and kill the god Tyr

Gefjun (Gefion) - The goddess who receives virgins after their death

Heimdall - 'The White God' Guardian of the bridge Bifrost

Hel - goddess of death, ruler of Niflheim (land of mists)

Hermod - Son of Odin

Hoder - Blind god who killed Baldur with a sprig of mistletoe

Hymir - A giant

Idunn - Goddess who guards the golden apples of youth (wife of Bragi)

Ing - Founder god of the Anglo-Saxons

Kvasir - Wisest of the gods created from the spittle of both the Aesir and the Vanir

Logi - Personification of fire

Loki - God of mischief

Mimir - God of wisdom

Nanna - Goddess-wife of Baldur

Nehallennia - Goddess of plenty

Nerthus - Goddess of earth

Njord - God of sea and ships

Odin (Othinn, Woden, Wotan) - God of battle, death and inspiration, hanged men. Chief god of the Aesir

Otr - 'Otter' son of Hreidmar, Killed by Loki

Ragnarok - 'Destruction of the powerful ones' apocalypse

Ran - Goddess of the sea (wife of Aegir)

Sif - goddess wife of Thor

sigyn - Goddess wife of Loki

Sleipnir - Eight legged horse of Odin

Thor (Donar, Thunor) - God of thunder, the sky, weather and weather dependant crops

Tiwaz - Germanic god of battle

Tyr - Battle god identified with Tiwaz

Ull - A minor god

Utgard-Loki - A supernatural giant

Valkyries (Alaisiagae) - 'Choosers of the Slain' nearest Norse equivalent to the Celtic Morrigan

Vanir - Family of norse fertility gods (always feuding with the Aesir)

Weland (Volundr, Wieland, Wayland) - God of smiths

 

Adapted from 'A guide to the Gods' by Richard Carlyon

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