Aesir Definition

āsîr, āzîr
noun
The gods of the Norse pantheon.
American Heritage
The principal gods and goddesses, including Odin, Thor, Balder, Loki, Frigg, and Tyr.
Webster's New World

The chief gods of pagan Scandinavia.

Wiktionary

Origin of Aesir

  • Old Norse pl. of āss god ansu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Aesir Sentence Examples

  • The later work opens with the Ynglinga Saga, a brief history of the pretended immigration into Sweden of the Aesir, of their successors in that country, the kings of Upsala, and of the oldest Norwegian kings, their descendants.

  • This family of deities were collectively known as Vanir, and are said to have once been hostile to the Aesir, to whom Odin belonged.

  • The goddess Frigg remarks, " Ye should never talk of your old doings before men, of what ye two Aesir went through in old times."

  • The most important god is Odin, the son of Bestla and Bor, the husband of Frigg, the father of Balder and many other sons, the head of the Aesir stock of gods.

  • The gods were divided into two - not always friendly - stocks, the Aesir and Vanir.

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