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List of Gods : "Poetic Edda" - 8 records

Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
Goddess name
"Disir"
Nordic / Icelandic / / Germanic Collective name for guardian goddesses. They were the subject of a sacrificial ritual in autumn and have strong fertility connotations as vegetation and fertility deities. They are identified in the Sigr drifumal (Poetic Edda) and include the Valkyries and Norns of Germanic mythology....
Goddess name
"Hlothyn"
Nordic / Icelandic Goddess. A less common name for the goddess Fjorgynn, noted in the Trymskvoia from the Poetic Edda. The mother of THOR....
Goddess name
"Hlothyn/ Holdyn/ Fjorgyn"
Nordic A goddess from the poetic edda
God name
"Hoenir"
Nordic / Icelandic / Identified in the Voluspa / Poetic Edda / as the priest of the Viking gods who handles the “blood wands” i God. e. Divines future events. Some authors believe Hoenir to be a hypostasis of the god OTHIN, particularly concerned with giving the human race senses and feelings. Also known in north Germanic culture. He is said to have fled to Vanaheim after the great battle between the AESIR and VANIR gods....
God name
"Lothur"
Nordic / Icelandic God of physical senses. According to a brief mention in the Voluspa (Poetic Edda) the god concerned with physical being i.e. sight, hearing and speech. According to some authors he may be a hypostasis of the god OTHIN. Lothur is also known in northern Germanic tradition. Also LODUR....
God name
"Othin"
Scandinavian The god of magic, but there is no other reference to his ever having disguised himself as a witch. Poetic Eddas
God name
"Valtam"
Nordic / Icelandic God. According to the Poetic Edda (Balder's Dreams) Valtam is the father of OTHIN....

"Voluspa"
Norse Prophecy of the Seeress, is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end related by a volva or seeress addressing Odin. Norse