• In Norse mythology, the sister-wife of Njörðr is the unnamed wife and sister of the god Njörðr, with whom he is described as having had the (likewise incestuous)...
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    Norse mythology, Njörðr (Old Norse: Njǫrðr) is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated...
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    of the deity, discussed potential etymological connections to the obscure female deity name Njörun, mention of the mysterious Sister-wife of Njörðr,...
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  • the Norse god Njörðr and the Roman goddess Nerio, and suggestions that she may represent the earth or be the unnamed sister-wife of Njörðr. Njörun is listed...
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  • family trees of the Norse gods showing kin relations among gods and other beings in Nordic mythology. Each family tree gives an example of relations according...
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    a Njörðr connection, Magnússon (1989:671) suggests Njörðr and Nerio. Hopkins, J.S., 2012. Goddesses Unknown I: Njǫrun and the Sister-Wife of Njǫrðr. The...
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  • Njǫrun and the Sister-Wife of Njǫrðr". RMN Newsletter (5): 39–44. Jackson, Peter (2002). "Light from Distant Asterisks. Towards a Description of the Indo-European...
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    daughter Hermione. Njörðr is sometimes said to be married to Skaði, while other times he's said to be married to his unnamed sister. Ynglinga saga chapter...
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    sight of the beautiful jötunn Gerðr, Freyr seeks and wins her love, yet at the price of his future doom. Their father is the powerful god Njörðr. Njörðr is...
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    Vanir (category Types of deities)
    War, Njörðr was exchanged as a hostage. In addition, when the world ends (Ragnarök), Njörðr "will return to the wise Vanir". Alvíssmál consists of question...
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    Freyr (category Mythological kings of Sweden)
    Edda, Freyr is presented as one of the Vanir, the son of the god Njörðr and his sister-wife, as well as the twin brother of the goddess Freyja. The gods...
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    is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi. Along with her twin brother Freyr, her father Njörðr, and her mother (Njörðr's sister, unnamed in sources)...
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  • there are themes of brother–sister marriage, a prominent example being between Njörðr and his unnamed sister (perhaps Nerthus), parents of Freyja and Freyr...
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    Lokasenna (redirect from Flyting of Loki)
    herein enter." Loki: "Cease now, Njörðr! in bounds contain thyself; I will no longer keep it secret: it was with thy sister thou hadst such a son (i.e. Freyr)...
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    religious practices surrounding a fertility god (such as the Vanir gods Njörðr or Freyr), and not to a personified sun. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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    Mímir (redirect from Head of Mimir)
    men: Njörðr—described as wealthy—and his son Freyr in exchange for Asaland's Hœnir—described here as large, handsome, and thought of by the people of Vanaheimr...
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    that the "daughters of Hymir" once used Njörðr "as a pisspot", urinating in his mouth (an otherwise unattested comment). Njörðr responds that this was...
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  • many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively). While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many...
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    characteristics of waves. Nix, water spirits who usually appear in human form. Njörðr, god of the sea, particularly of seafaring. Rán, sea goddess of death who...
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  • some strains of Norse paganism saw him as a fertility god (possibly due to bringing rain) and the father of Freyr and Freyja instead of Njordr Aphrodite...
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    beginning." Skaði, a daughter of Þjazi and later wife of Njörðr. Goddess associated with skiing and claimed as a mythical ancestor of Haakon Sigurdsson. Þjazi...
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    a fertility goddess, the sister of the fertility god Freyr and daughter of the sea god Njörðr. Freyja is also a goddess of war, battle, death, magic...
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    time wife of Njörðr), Njerda (Scandinavian name of Nerthus), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja (wife of Óðr), Sif (wife of Thor)...
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    which Njörðr belongs, in Old Norse sources. Collectives of three goddess known as matronae appear on numerous votive altars from the Roman province of Germania...
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    Ragnarök (category Death of deities)
    or if this is an element of the post-Ragnarök world. The Vanir god Njörðr is mentioned in relation to Ragnarök in stanza 39 of the poem Vafþrúðnismál....
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    aspect of a once powerful goddess of the north, the figure representing in Scandinavian myths as either Frigg, the wife of Odin, or Freyja, sister of fertility...
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  • survival by finding the reincarnation of Odin's wife, Frigg. Matters are complicated by the presence of several antagonistic or amorously interested Norse...
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  • Indo-European vocabulary (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024)
    'with two sisters'". Lingua Posnaniensis. 57 (2): 59–62. doi:10.1515/linpo-2015-0011. S2CID 56122374. Kloekhorst, Alwin (2011). "The accentuation of the PIE...
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    The Norse Ynglingasaga tells of a war between the Æsir (led by Oðinn and Thor) and the Vanir (led by Freyr, Freyja and Njörðr) that finally ends with the...
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    Eadgils (category Semi-legendary kings of Sweden)
    ancestry from Eadgils, and its line of succession is the same as that of Ynglingatal. i Yngvi Tyrkjakonungr. ii Njörðr Svíakonungr. iii Freyr. iiii Fjölnir...
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