• The landdísir are not recorded in Old Norse sources, but belief in them is assumed from the name landdísasteinar. Rudolf Simek says that the landdísir "are...
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    to other beings believed to inhabit the land such as elves, dwarfs and landdísir, with which they were potentially identified at different points in history...
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    the disir were the souls of dead women (see fylgjur) also underlies the landdísir of Icelandic folklore." Simek says that "as the function of the matrons...
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    the dísir were the souls of dead women (see fylgjur) also underlies the landdísir of Icelandic folklore. Simek says that "as the function of the matrons...
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  • Raphael, etc." or to a lesser extent, the guardian angel. Fylgja Hamingja Landdisir Landvættir Vættir In Hinduism, personal tutelary deities are known as...
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    the disir were the souls of dead women (see fylgjur) also underlies the landdísir of Icelandic folklore." Simek says that "as the function of the matrons...
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