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Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Atlas Coeus Crius Cronus Demeter Dionysus Gaia Hades Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Hyperion Iapetus Mnemosyne Oceanus Phobos Phoebe Poseidon Prometheus Rhea Tethys Themis Uranus Zeus
Bacchus Ceres Diana Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Pluto Venus Vesta Vulcan
Amun Anubis Aten Atum Babi Bastet Bes Geb Hapi hathor heqet Horus Isis Khepri Khnum Khonsu Maat Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Ra Seshat Seth Shu Sobek Thoth
Alfheim Baldur Freya Freyr Frigg Heimdallr Helheim Idun Jotunheim Loki Nerthus Njord Odin Thor Tyr
Aengus Arawn Badb Brigid Cailleach Ceridwen Cernunnos Cu Chulainn Dagda Danu Gwydion Herne the Hunter Lugh Medb Morrigan Neit Nuada Taliesin Taranis
Chalchiuhtlicue Coatlicue Huitzilopochtli Mictlantecuhtli Mixcoatl Ometeotl Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Tlaloc Tonatiuh Xipe Totec Xochiquetzal Xolotl
Amaterasu Ame no Uzume Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fujin Fukurokuju Inari Izanagi Kagutsuchi Raijin Susanoo Tsukuyomi
Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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  4. Vidar

Vidar

Vidar was the son of Odin and the giantess Grid "peace". Vidar was known as the silent god or silent As, because he rarely talked. Vidar was thesecond strongest As after Thor. Vidar lived in Brushwood. Brushwood was either the name of his hall or else it is his land, since it said the Eddaic poem:

Brushwood grows and high grass
widely in Vidar's land;
and there the son proclaims on his horse's back
that he's keen to avenge his father.

Grimmar's Sayings 17 from the Poetic Edda
translated by Carolyne Larrington

His mother gave him special iron shoes that he would wear in Ragnarök (Ragnarok). Vidar avenged his father death at Ragnarök by killing the giant wolf Fenrir. The shoes protected him from being devoured by Fenrir. In the monster's mouth, Vidar would stand in Fenrir's lower jaw while gripping his upper jaw with his bare hands. Then Vidar tore Fenrir's mouth apart. Vidar was one of the survivors of Ragnarök.

Snorri compared Vidar with Aeneas, the Trojan hero, because Vidar survived Ragnarök as Aeneas had survived when Troy fell.

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Vidar – "wide ruler".

Aeneas (Greek/Roman).

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Odin, Grid, Thor, Höd. Fenrir.

Ragnarök.

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Aesir:

  • • Odin
  • • Ve (Lodur)
  • • Vili (Hœnir)
  • • Thor
  • • Tyr
  • • Njörd
  • • Freyr (Lord)
  • • Heimdall
  • • Loki
  • • Ull
  • • Bragi
  • • Forseti
  • • Vidar
  • • Vali
  • • Balder
  • • Höd
  • • Hermod
  • • Mimir
  • • Magni and Modi
  • • Frigg
  • • Freyja (Lady)
  • • Sif
  • • Idun
  • • Jörd (Fjörgyn)
  • • Rind
  • • Gefjon
  • • Fulla
  • • Thrud
  • • Sol and Moon
  • • Other Asyniur
  • • Aegir
  • • Ran
  • • Nott
  • • Hel
  • • Norns
Vali

Vali

Vali was the son of Odin and the giantess Rind . (Vali should not be confused with the son of Loki and Sigyn, who also was named Vali). When his half-brother Höd (Hod) killed Vali's other half-brother Balder , Rind gave birth to Vali on that very ...

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Grid

Grid

Frost-giantess. Grid ("peace") was the friendly giantess who warned Thor of Geirrod's treachery. Thor was going to the home of Geirrod unarmed, since Loki had persuaded Thor to leave Mjollnir at home. Grid gave Thor her magic staff (Grídarvöl), as...

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Fenrir

Fenrir

Giant wolf. Fenrir was the offspring of Loki and the giantess Angerboda . Fenrir was also called Fenris. Snorri Sturluson also gave Fenrir another name, Vanargand. Fenrir grew so rapidly and in such gigantic proportions that the gods feared it. Th...

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Vili (Hœnir)

Vili (Hœnir)

Vili was the son of the giants Bor and Bestla . Vili was sometimes called Hœnir (Hoenir or Haenir). Vili, along with his brothers, Odin and Ve , killed the giant Ymir and created the universe. As Hœnir, he gave the gifts of spirit and understandin...

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Odin

Odin

Ruler of universe and leader of the Aesir. Odin was the son of the giants Bor and Bestla . He, along with his brothers, Ve (Lodur) and Vili (Hœnir) created the universe. When he and his brothers created the first man and woman, named Askr and Embl...

July 23rd, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Odin

Odin

Odin: The Norse King of the Gods Odin was the chief of all the gods in Norse mythology. Because of his high status as king of the gods, he was also called the All-Father. He was a warrior, poet, and magician, and he ruled over the Aesir tribe of t...

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Vafthrudnir

Vafthrudnir

Vafthrudnir was the wisest of giants, according to one of the poems from the Poetic Edda – Vafthrudnismal ("Vafthrudnir's Sayings"). Apart from Vafthrudnir being the son of the giant Im, not much is known about Vafthrudnir. He is not mentioned in ...

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Witege (Viðga)

Witege (Viðga)

German hero in the legend of Dietrich/Thidrek. Witege was the son of the famous craftsman or smith named Wayland and Bödvild, the daughter of King Nídud of Sweden. In the Norse legend, he was Viðga, son of Völund. Other variations of his name incl...

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Heimdall

Heimdall

Heimdall was known as the White As ("As" is singular for Aesir). Heimdall was the son of the Nine Waves (nine giantesses, who were sisters; this meant that Heimdall had nine mothers). The Nine Waves were the nine daughters of Aegir . Heimdall was ...

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Geirrod

Geirrod

A frost giant. Geirrod ("spear-rider") was the father of two giantess – Gialp ("yelper") and Greip ("gripper"). Geirrod and his two daughters tried to kill Thor. Though Geirrod managed to get Thor to leave behind his weapon, Thor received an unbre...

August 27th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe

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