| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Fjolner" | Norse | One of Odin's many names. Norse |
"Freke" | Norse | One of Odin's wolves. Norse |
"Freya" | Scandinavia | Scandinavia held at Yuletide the festival called Jul, in honour of Freya, wife of Odin. |
| Goddess name "Freya, Freyja" | Norse | Freya or Freyja [Feminine of Freyr]. The daughter of Njord and sister of Frey. She dwells in Folkvang. Half the fallen in battle belong to her, the other half to Odin. She lends her feather disguise to Loke. She is the goddess of love. Her husband is Oder. Her necklace is Brisingamen. She has a boar with golden bristles. Norse |
| God name "Frigg" | Norse | [Love]. She is the wife of Odin, and mother of Balder and queen of the gods, and reigns with Odin in Hlidskjalf. She exacts an oath from all things that they shall not harm Balder. Norse |
"Gagnraad aka Gagnrade" | Norse | A name åśśumed by Odin when he went to visit Vafthrudner. Norse |
"Ganglere aka Gangleri" | Norse | One of Odin's names in Grimner's Lay. Norse |
| Goddess name "Gefjun or Gefjon" | Norse | A goddess. She is a maid, and all those who die maids become her maid-servants. She is present at ?ger's feast. Odin says she knows men's destinies as well as he does himself. Norse |
| King name "Geirrod" | Norse | A son of king Hraudung and foster-son of Odin; he becomes king and is visited by Odin, who calls himself Grimner. He is killed by his own sword. There is also a giant by name Geirrod, who was once visited by Thor. Norse |
"Gere or Geri" | Norse | [gerr, greedy]. One of Odin's wolves. Norse |
"Gladsheim" | Norse | Gladsheim [Home of brightness or gladness]. Odin's dwelling. Norse |
| Goddess name "Glipzo" | Discworld | The Howondalandish tribe of this Goddess believed that their ancestors resided in the moon. After a signal from their ancestors they were urged to kill anyone who didn't believe in Glipzo. Three years later the tribe was destroyed by a rock falling out of the sky, as a result of a star exploding a billion years before. Discworld |
"Grimner" | Norse | A kind of hood or cowl covering the upper part of the face. Grimner is a name of Odin from his traveling in disguise. Norse |
"Gungner" | Norse | Gungner [To tremble violently]. Odin's spear. Norse |
"Gunlad / Gunnlod" | Norse | One who invites war. She was daughter of the giant Suttung, and had charge of the poetic mead. Odin got it from her. Norse |
"Haar" | Norse | The High One, applied to Odin. Norse |
| God name "Har" | Scandinavian | The first person of the Scandinavian Trinity, which consists of Har (the Mighty), the Like Mighty, and the Third Person. This Trinity is called "The Mysterious Three," and they sit on three thrones above the Rainbow. The next in order are the Aesir, of which Odin, the chief, lives in Asgard, on the heavenly hills between earth and the Rainbow. The third order is the Vanir - the gods of the ocean, air, and clouds - of which Van Niord is the chief. Har has already påśśed his ninth incarnation; in his tenth he will take the forms first of a peaçõçk, and then of a horse, when all the followers of Mahomet will be destroyed. |
"Harbard" | Norse | The name åśśumed by Odin in the Lay of Harbard. Norse |
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