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Subject: 2.2 The Vanir Gods and Godesses Thu Apr 27, 2017 6:15 pm
The Vanir Gods and Godesses
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The Vanir are one of the two principal tribes of deities featured in Norse mythology. The other tribe is the Aesir. Among their ranks are Freya, Freyr, Njord, and Nerthus. Their home is Vanaheim, one of the Nine Worlds held within the branches of the world-tree Yggdrasil.
Freya: Freya is one of the preeminent goddesses in Norse mythology. She’s a member of the Vanir tribe of deities, but became an honorary member of the Aesir gods after the Aesir-Vanir War. Her father is Njord. Her mother is unknown, but could be Nerthus. Freyr is her brother. Freya is famous for her fondness of love, fertility, beauty, and fine material possessions – and, because of these predilections, she’s considered to be something of the “party girl” of the Aesir. Loki accuses Freya of having slept with all of the gods and elves, including her brother.
Freyr: Freyr was one of the most widely and passionately venerated divinities amongst the heathen Norse and other Germanic peoples. One Old Norse poem calls him “the foremost of the gods” and “hated by none.” The reasons for this aren’t hard to understand; their well-being and prosperity depended on his benevolence, which particularly manifested itself in sexual and ecological fertility, bountiful harvests, wealth, and peace. His role in providing health and abundance was often symbolized by his fylgja, the boar Gullinborsti, and by his enormous, erect phallus.
Njord: Njord was particularly associated with wealth, fertility, the sea, and seafaring. A saying among the Norse peoples held especially wealthy people to be “as rich as Njord.”
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