Norse Gods and Goddess   Aegir' Alebrewer' so called  because Aegir loves to give feast for the Gods. God of the sea,Saxon pirates gave to Agier a tenth of their captivies,who were thrown into the sea.   Angrboda The giantness who mated with Loki to create Hel,Fenrir and the Middgard Serpant.   Balder. A hero God,the God who dies and rises again.Fair skinned,fairhaired,wise and merciful,beloved.Loki tricked Hoder into killing Balder,who had to be rescued from the underworld.According to the epic poem Voluska,Balder will come rule again after Ranarok.   Bragi God of poetry and eloquenence,husband of Iduum. Its Bragie's duty to prepare Valhalla for new arrivals.   Donar German God of thunder, a forerunner of Thor.His symbol is the swastika.Oak trees are sacred to Donar,as they are his jove.   Fenrir Also Fenris Wolf. A monstrous wolf concived by Loki.Fenrir was raised in Asgard,home of the Gods,until he became so immense and feroucious that only God Tyr was brave enough to feed him.Tyr bound Fenrir until  the day of ragnarok,when Fenrir will break loose to slay Odin.   Forseti God of justice,the great arbiter,the God who "stills all strife".Forseti dwells in a hall of gold ans silver called Giltnir. Freyr.'The God of the world',son of Njord,husband of Freyja.God of fertility,sunlight and rain,peace,joy and contentment.Freyr was worshipped  with human sacrifices and kind religious play in which men dressed as women mimed and danced to the sound  of chimes and bells.Freyr had some association with the horse cult as well, and horses sacred to his service were kept near his shrines.Freyr and his wife/ sister Freyja were the Vanir,a family of race of  Gods which originally competed with the Aesir and later became allies.The Vanir may have been the Gods of an earlier Scandinavian race who were adopted into the pantheon of later conquerors.   Freyja Goddess of majic and death,Goddess of sex,daughter of Njord,a shapeshifter who often took the form of a falcon.When her husband Od disappeared,Freyja wept golden tears.Donning a majical garment,Freyjak could fly long distances.Patroness of seithr,a pratice  in which a sorceress would enter a trance to foretell the future.The women who practiced siethr,who were known as Vola,wandered freely about the country casting spells and foretelling the future.Freyja's worshippers involved orgiastic rites which horrified and outraged the christians.   Frigg Wife of Odin,mother of Balder,Queen of Asgard.A fertility Goddess.   Heimdall. The God who guards the Bigfrost Bridge which is the enterance to Asgard.Heimdall can see for immense distances,and his ear is so sensitive that he can hear grass grow.On the day of Ragnarok,Heimdall will blow the great horn of Gjallarhorn,and the ensuing battle he will slay Loki.   Hel Goddess of death.Daughter of Loki.Ruler of Nifheim,the land of mist.Heroic souls go to Valhalla.Those who die of disease or old age come to Niflhen.Surrounded by high walls and stronger gates ,Nifhen is impregnable,not even Balder could return from there without Hel's permission.   Hermod.A hero God.Hermod rode through the gates  of Niflheim to rescue Balder and found Balder seated on the right hand of Hel.Hel agreed to releaseBalder on the condition that all living things weep for him.   Hoder.He is a blind.Loki tricked Hoder into killing Balder wwith a sprig of mistletoe.Hoder will join Balder in the new world which will come into being when the presant one is destroyed.    Idunn.Wife of Bragi,keeper of the golden apples of eternal youth.The giant Thiazzi kidnapped her with the aid of Loki.   Loki A trickster.Sly,deceitful,a master thief,not to be trusted.Nevertheless,Loki is charming,witty,quite capable, and possessed a sardonic sense of humor which he aims at himself no less often at others. A shape shifter who can change into almost any animal form. Loki was involved in many of the Gods adventures,usually because his tricks had some kind of a mess.   Midgard Serpent. The great snake which lives in the ocean and encircles the world, its tail in its mouth.On the day of Ragnarok, the world will disappear under the oceans waters when the Midgard Serpent rises  from the sea.Thor will kill  the Midgard Sepent, but he will have the seprents poison.   Mimir.The guardian of a spring of wisdim at the root of Yggdrasill, the world tree which connects the lower and higher worlds and is the source of all life.Odin gave an eye to drink from that spring.   Nerthus An earth mother worshipped by the German tribe of Suebi.Her sacred grove stood on an island in the North Sea.   Njord.The chief of the Vanir, who warred with the Aesir.Lord of the winds and the sea,giving a wealth.Particulerly revered on the west coast of Sweden. In the pagan days oths in courts of law were sworn in his name. Njord may be a mascuiline form of Nerthus.   Odin. Also Othinn;Woden;Wotan. A God of strife and war , majic and death.The chief of the Aesir who lives in his hall Valaskja in Sagard from which he can look out over all the worlds. In  his hallValhalla,Valkyries(female of the warrior) spirit serve heros that have fallen in battle and will the God in the grewat battle of Ragnarok. On  Odin's shoulders perched two ravens,Hugin('Thought') and Munin('Memory') who can fly about all the worlds to bring Odin knowledge.Odin often aids great heros but is quite fickle and can turn against a man for any reason  or none at all.Tales of Odin's trechery are not just merely christian propaganda.Odin's worshippers themselves could be quite sharped tongued about Odin's unfaithfulness. Odin's worship involved human sacrifices, who were generally hung from trees or gallows.   Thor God of thunder,Huge,red-bearded,red eyed,powerful.His weapon is the majic hammer Mjollnir,which is augmented by a majic belt which doubles Thor's strength and iron gloves which Thor grips Mjollnir. In some ways Odin's rival,Thor is the God of law and order,the champion of the people.Unlike Odin,Thor will keep faith.Oaths were sworn in Thor's name which no sane man would ever do with Odin.   Tiwaz.The one- handed Sky God and God of War of the early German peoples. Tiwaz was a God worshipped with human sacrifices conducted in deep forest.Tiwaz is a God of law.His function s were taken over later by Odin and Thor,though unlike Odin,Tiwaz is completely without deceit and guile.Tiwaz is also known as Irmin,and his scared piller Irminsul symbolically held the universe together.   Tyr.God of battle,the only God with strength and courage to bind Fenris.Warriors marked their swoards with a T to gain the God's protection.Tyr was orginally was Tiwaz,retained in a later pantheon but overshadowed by Odin and Thor.   Weland.Also known as Volundr;Wieland;Wayland,God of smiths and metal workers. Son of the giant Wade. Weland has much in common with smith Gods such as Govannon and Hephaistos, which comes as no suprise. Technology and metal working spread slowy in the ancient world,usually on a person to person basis,highly skilled metalsmiths, and other technical workers formed a virtual international brotherhood.