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Who are the Gods and Goddesses of Ásatrú?
Who are the Gods and Goddesses of Ásatrú?
Then spoke Gangleri: "Which are the Æsir that men ought to believe in?" Hárr said: "There are twelve Æsir whose nature is divine." Then spoke Jafnhárr: "No less holy are the Asyniur, nor is their power less."
These are the words that introduce some of the gods and goddesses of the Norse and Germanic people to King Gangleri in Snorri Sturluson's Edda. Here we find a brief listing of the Æsir (gods), Asynjur (goddesses) and other beings of the Norse mythology and brief stories presented from the ancient mythology in an account written down at the end of the Viking Age. First named is Odin, his son Balder, Thor and his wife, Sif; Tyr, Njord and his son and daughter, Frey and Freya, Bragi, Heimdall, Hod, Vidar, Ali, Ullr, Loki, Aegir and his wife, Ran. Also named are many of the goddesses, who include, among others, Frigg, Freya, Lofn, Var, and Skadi The mythology also preserves an account a story of two warring groups of deities, the Æsir and the Vanir who pledged a truce with one another and are referred to now collectively as the Æsir.
The sense of divinity differs from that of Western monotheistic religions as it does in other primitive, culturally based native religions. An understanding of the faith is incomplete without recognizing the many other supernatural beings such as the dísír, landvættir, elves, dwarves, giants, trolls that are an integral part of the worldview as well as man’s place in that interactive spiritual landscape.
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