Norse Myth

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• Baldr — Dictionary of Mythic Figures: Symbol and Archetype Baldr is the god of light, beauty, and innocence, and his death is the decisive tragedy that foreshadows Ragnarok in Norse mythology.
• Bragi — Dictionary of Mythological Figures: Symbols and Archetypes Bragi is the god of poetry and eloquence, symbolizing the power of speech to preserve memory and shape a community's honor.
• Fenrir — Dictionary of Mythological Figures: Symbolism and Archetype Fenrir is Loki's wolf son, symbolizing destructive power that the gods bound out of fear and the self-fulfillment of prophecy.
• Freya — Dictionary of Mythological Figures: Symbols and Archetypes Freya is a Vanir goddess who encompasses love, beauty, war, gold, and seidr magic, revealing an archetype of desire and sovereignty.
• Freyr — Dictionary of Mythological Figures: Symbols and Archetypes Freyr is a god of abundance, peace, kingship, sunlight, and good harvests, an archetype of vitality and love that comes at a cost.
• Frigg — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbols and Archetypes Frigg is Odin's wife and Baldr's mother, a goddess who shows foresight, silence, and the limits of protective love.
• Heimdall — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Heimdall is the watchman god who guards Bifrost, an archetype of vigilance, awakening, and the guardian who sounds the final alarm.
• Hel — Norse Mythology Character Dictionary: Symbolism and Archetype Hel is Loki's daughter who rules the world of the dead, symbolizing what is cast aside and the unavoidable order of death.
• Idunn — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbols and Archetypes Idunn is the goddess of the apples that preserve the gods' youth, symbolizing the archetype of preserving and renewing life force.
• Jormungandr — Norse Mythology Character Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Jormungandr is the enormous serpent that encircles the world, symbolizing boundaries, cycles, suppressed catastrophe, and Thor's fate.
• Loki — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbols and Archetype Loki is the Norse mythological trickster of shapeshifting, mischief, and destructive intelligence, a figure who reveals the cracks hidden inside order.
• Mimir — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Mimir is remembered through the well of wisdom and his severed head, symbolizing memory, counsel, and knowledge that demands a price.
• Njord — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Njord is a Vanir god who governs the sea, seafaring, wealth, and peace, showing the archetype of abundance and a sense of place.
• Norns — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbols and Archetypes The Norns are female beings of fate, represented by Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, who symbolize the weave of time and necessity.
• Odin — Dictionary of Norse Mythological Figures: Symbols and Archetypes Odin is the chief god of Norse mythology, holding wisdom, war, death, poetry, and magic in one figure, and showing the archetype of gaining knowledge by paying a price.
• Surtr — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Surtr is a fire giant, an archetype of apocalypse and purification who carries a flaming sword at Ragnarok and burns the world.
• Sif — Norse Mythology Character Dictionary: Symbols and Archetypes Sif is a goddess remembered as Thor's wife and for her golden hair, symbolizing fertility and the restoration of damaged beauty.
• Skadi — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Skadi is a giantess associated with mountains, hunting, skiing, vengeance, and independence, symbolizing the archetype of cold self-reliance.
• Sleipnir — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbols and Archetypes Sleipnir is Odin's eight-legged horse, a symbol of mobility between worlds and shamanic journeying.
• Thor — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Thor is the thunder god who carries Mjolnir, symbolizing the archetype of strength and protection that guards the human world against giants and monsters.
• Tyr — Dictionary of Mythological Figures: Symbols and Archetype Tyr is a god of war, law, and oaths, and an archetype of responsibility and sacrifice who lost his hand to bind Fenrir.
• Valkyrie — Dictionary of Mythic Figures: Symbols and Archetypes Valkyries are female beings who choose those who will die in battle and those who will become Odin's fallen warriors, symbolizing chosen death and messengers of fate.
• Vidar — Norse Mythology Figure Dictionary: Symbol and Archetype Vidar is the god of silence and vengeance, an archetype of the survivor who answers Odin's death by killing Fenrir at Ragnarok.
• Nidhogg — Dictionary of Norse Mythological Figures: Symbols and Archetypes Nidhogg is a dragon or serpent that gnaws at the roots of the World Tree, symbolizing the shadow force that corrodes order from below.
• Ymir — Dictionary of Norse Mythological Figures: Symbols and Archetypes Ymir is the primordial giant whose body serves as the material for the creation of the world, symbolizing the primal chaos and raw substance of Norse creation mythology.