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From: "Raven" <jon.lennart.beck.yeah.its.my.n...@mail.its.in.danmark>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:40:01 +0100
Local: Fri, Nov 17 2006 7:40 pm
Subject: Re: Valar and Norse god of the Sea
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> And I couldn't think of any Norse god of the sea. It seems there Njord, possibly the same as earlier Nerthus that was described by a Roman > should have been one, given the importance of the sea in Norse life, > but was there? as a chief goddess of the Earth worshipped by the Iron Age Germanics. In the Norse mythology Njord was a Vana, ie. of the other clan of gods, while Odin and Thor were Asagods. Njord was father of Frey (god of fertility) and Freya (goddess of love, and therefore also concerned with fertility). His wife, after he had fathered Frey and Freya, was Skadi of the mountain, who may actually have named Scandinavia, having perhaps been much more important in the mythology earlier, long before written records. In one story she seems to have come close to defeating the Asagods collectively, but was defeated through a delaying action and was then given Njord as husband in a sort of equivalent of Danegeld - as Larry the Housecarl mentioned, he had clean and beautiful feet from standing in seawater all day long. Also there were Ęgir and Ran. I'm no expert, but it seems to me that Ran had somewhat of the same temperament and role as Ossė. So there were actually three of them. Just as there were three war-gods - Odin, king, master of war-luck, Thor the great champion who beat the Jotnir to pulp, and Tyr (or Tiw), the general. The Jotnir (Jotuns) were at least in part a precursor to the trolls of later fairy tales, so perhaps we could on occasion do with some Thor-worship on the NGs. Perhaps the relative scarcity of trolls lately is due to Thor paying heed to us. :-) Hrafn. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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