Aesir, in Scandinavian mythology, either of two main groups ofdeities, four of whom were common to the Germanic nations:Odin(q.v.), chief of the Aesir;Frigg(q.v.), Odin’s wife;Tyr(q.v.), god of war; andThor(q.v.), whose name was the Teutonic word for thunder. Some of the...
Brynhildr is a famous shieldmaiden and Valkyrie from Germanic and Scandinavian mythology. She is a main character in the Völsunga saga and Poetic Eddic poems. She also appears in the Nibelungenlied and in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen operas. There are a few different versions of ...