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title="Ägir – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Ägir" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9)" title="إيجير (أسطورة) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="إيجير (أسطورة)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Егир – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Егир" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egui" title="Egui – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Egui" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegir" title="Aegir – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Aegir" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84gir" title="Ägir – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ägir" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%88%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%81" title="Έγκιρ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Έγκιρ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%B1" title="اگیر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اگیر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigir" title="Eigir – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Eigir" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%97%90%EA%B8%B0%EB%A5%B4" title="에기르 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="에기르" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegir" title="Aegir – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Aegir" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egir" title="Egir – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Egir" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%92%D7%99%D7%A8" title="אגיר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אגיר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92girs" title="Ēgirs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Ēgirs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegir" title="Aegir – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Aegir" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegir_(reus)" title="Aegir (reus) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Aegir (reus)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AB" title="エーギル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="エーギル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86ge" title="Æge – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Æge" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86ge" title="Æge – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Æge" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84gir" title="Ägir – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Ägir" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegir" title="Aegir – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Aegir" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegir" title="Aegir – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Aegir" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Эгир – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Эгир" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%80" title="Аегир – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Аегир" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegir" title="Aegir – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Aegir" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86gir" title="Ægir – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ægir" data-language-autonym="Suomi" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Aegir_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Aegir (disambiguation)">Aegir (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Water-Sprite_and_%C3%84gir%27s_Daughters_(Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r)_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18200.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/The_Water-Sprite_and_%C3%84gir%27s_Daughters_%28Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18200.tif/lossy-page1-220px-The_Water-Sprite_and_%C3%84gir%27s_Daughters_%28Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18200.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/The_Water-Sprite_and_%C3%84gir%27s_Daughters_%28Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18200.tif/lossy-page1-330px-The_Water-Sprite_and_%C3%84gir%27s_Daughters_%28Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18200.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/The_Water-Sprite_and_%C3%84gir%27s_Daughters_%28Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18200.tif/lossy-page1-440px-The_Water-Sprite_and_%C3%84gir%27s_Daughters_%28Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18200.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3859" data-file-height="3084" /></a><figcaption><i>Näcken och Ägirs döttrar</i> by <a href="/wiki/Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r" title="Nils Blommér">Nils Blommér</a>, 1850, depicting Ægir and his nine wave daughters</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Ægir</b> (anglicised as <b>Aegir</b>; <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> 'sea'), <b>Hlér</b> (Old Norse 'sea'), or <b>Gymir</b> (Old Norse less clearly 'sea, engulfer'), is a <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6tunn" title="Jötunn">jötunn</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphism" title="Anthropomorphism">personification</a> of the sea in <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse mythology</a>. In the Old Norse record, Ægir hosts the gods in his halls and is associated with brewing ale. Ægir is attested as married to a goddess, <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1n" title="Rán">Rán</a>, who also personifies the sea, and together the two produced daughters who personify waves, the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n" title="Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán">Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán</a>, and Ægir's son is <a href="/wiki/Sn%C3%A6r" title="Snær">Snær</a>, personified snow. Ægir may also be the father of the beautiful jötunn <a href="/wiki/Ger%C3%B0r" title="Gerðr">Gerðr</a>, wife of the god <a href="/wiki/Freyr" title="Freyr">Freyr</a>, or these may be two separate figures who share the same name (see below and <a href="/wiki/Gymir_(father_of_Ger%C3%B0r)" title="Gymir (father of Gerðr)">Gymir (father of Gerðr)</a>). </p><p>One of Ægir's names, <i>Hlér</i>, is the namesake of the island <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A6s%C3%B8" title="Læsø">Læsø</a> (Old Norse <i>Hlésey</i> 'Hlér's island') and perhaps also <a href="/wiki/Lejre" title="Lejre">Lejre</a> in <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>. Scholars have long analyzed Ægir's role in the Old Norse corpus, and the concept of the figure has had some influence in modern popular culture. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names">Names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> name <i>Ægir</i> ('sea') may stem from a <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" title="Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> form <i>*āg<sup>w</sup>i-jaz</i> ('that of the river/water'),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHaudry201729–30_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaudry201729–30-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> itself a <a href="/wiki/Morphological_derivation" title="Morphological derivation">derivative</a> of the stem <i>*ahwō-</i> ('river'; cf. <a href="/wiki/Gothic_language" title="Gothic language">Gothic</a> <i><span title="Gothic-language text"><i lang="got">aƕa</i></span></i> 'body of water, river', <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> <i>ēa</i> 'stream', <a href="/wiki/Old_High_German" title="Old High German">Old High German</a> <i>aha</i> 'river').<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKroonen20137_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKroonen20137-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Cleasby" title="Richard Cleasby">Richard Cleasby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gu%C3%B0brandur_Vigf%C3%BAsson" title="Guðbrandur Vigfússon">Guðbrandur Vigfússon</a> saw his name as deriving from an ancient <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European</a> root.<sup id="cite_ref-CLEASBYVIGFUSSON758_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CLEASBYVIGFUSSON758-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Linguist Guus Kroonen argues that the <a href="/wiki/Germanic_languages" title="Germanic languages">Germanic</a> stem <i>*ahwō-</i> is probably of <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> (PIE) origin, as it may be <a href="/wiki/Cognate" title="Cognate">cognate</a> with <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <i>aqua</i> (via a common form <i>*h₂ekʷ-eh₂-</i>), and ultimately descend from the PIE root <i>*h₂ep</i>- ('water'; cf. <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> <i>áp-</i> 'water', <a href="/wiki/Tocharian_languages" title="Tocharian languages">Tocharian</a> <i>āp-</i> 'water, river').<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKroonen20137_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKroonen20137-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Linguist <a href="/wiki/Michiel_de_Vaan" title="Michiel de Vaan">Michiel de Vaan</a> notes that the connection between Proto-Germanic *<i>ahwō</i>- and Old Norse <i>Ægir</i> remains uncertain, and that *<i>ahwō-</i> and <i>aqua</i>, if cognates, may also be loanwords from a non-Indo-European language.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The name <i>Ægir</i> is identical to a noun for 'sea' in <a href="/wiki/Skald" title="Skald">skaldic poetry</a>, itself a base word in many <a href="/wiki/Kenning" title="Kenning">kennings</a>. For instance, a ship is described as "Ægir's horse" and the waves as the "daughters of Ægir".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200247_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200247-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Poetic <a href="/wiki/Kenning" title="Kenning">kennings</a> in both <i><a href="/wiki/Hversu_Noregr_bygg%C3%B0ist" title="Hversu Noregr byggðist">Hversu Noregr byggðist</a></i> (How Norway Was Settled) and <i><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%A1ldskaparm%C3%A1l" title="Skáldskaparmál">Skáldskaparmál</a></i> (The Language of Poetry) treat Ægir and the sea-jötunn Hlér, who lives on the Hlésey ('Hlér island', modern <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A6s%C3%B8" title="Læsø">Læsø</a>), as the same figure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970251_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970251-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996151_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996151-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200218_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200218-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The meaning of the <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> name <i>Gymir</i> is unclear.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970197_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970197-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996127_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996127-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Proposed translations include 'the earthly' (from Old Norse <i>gumi</i>), 'the wintry one' (from <i>gemla</i>), or 'the protector', the 'engulfer' (from <i>geyma</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970197_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970197-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996127_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996127-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard199770_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrchard199770-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (For more on this topic, see discussion below) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attestations">Attestations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Attestations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n.jpg/220px-Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n.jpg/330px-Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n.jpg/440px-Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Ægir, <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1n" title="Rán">Rán</a> and their <a href="/wiki/Nine_Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n" title="Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán">Nine Daughters</a> prepare a huge vat of <a href="/wiki/Ale" title="Ale">ale</a>. 19th-century Swedish <a href="/wiki/Book_illustration" title="Book illustration">book illustration</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Poetic_Edda" title="Poetic Edda">Poetic Edda</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Ægir is attested in a variety of Old Norse sources. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sonatorrek"><i>Sonatorrek</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sonatorrek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ægir and Rán receive mention in the poem <i><a href="/wiki/Sonatorrek" title="Sonatorrek">Sonatorrek</a></i> attributed to 10th century Icelandic <a href="/wiki/Skald" title="Skald">skald</a> <a href="/wiki/Egill_Skallagr%C3%ADmsson" title="Egill Skallagrímsson">Egill Skallagrímsson</a>. In the poem, Egill laments the death of his son Böðvar, who drowned at sea during a storm. In one difficult stanza, the skald expresses the pain of losing his son by invoking the image of slaying the personified sea, personified as Ægir (Old Norse <i>ǫlsmið[r]</i> 'ale-smith') and Rán (<i>Ægis man</i> 'Ægir's wife'): </p> <table> <tbody><tr> <td> <dl><dd>Veiztu um ϸá sǫk</dd> <dd>sverði of rækak,</dd> <dd>var ǫlsmið[r]</dd> <dd>allra tíma;</dd> <dd>hroða vágs brœðr</dd> <dd>ef vega mættak;</dd> <dd>fœra ek andvígr</dd> <dd>Ægis mani.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEinarsson2003149_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEinarsson2003149-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </td> <td> <dl><dd>You know,</dd> <dd>if I took revenge with the sword</dd> <dd>for that offence,</dd> <dd>Ægir would be dead;</dd> <dd>if I could kill them,</dd> <dd>I would fight Ægir and Rán.<sup id="cite_ref-EINARSSON-2003_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EINARSSON-2003-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The skald later references Ægir by way of the kenning 'Hlér's fire' (<i>Hlés viti</i>), meaning <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEinarsson200385_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEinarsson200385-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poetic_Edda"><i>Poetic Edda</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Poetic Edda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i>Poetic Edda</i>, Ægir receives mention in the eddic poems <i><a href="/wiki/Gr%C3%ADmnism%C3%A1l" title="Grímnismál">Grímnismál</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Hymiskvi%C3%B0a" title="Hymiskviða">Hymiskviða</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lokasenna" title="Lokasenna">Lokasenna</a></i>, and in the prose section of <i><a href="/wiki/Helgakvi%C3%B0a_Hundingsbana_I" title="Helgakviða Hundingsbana I">Helgakviða Hundingsbana I</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington2014324_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington2014324-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Grímnismál</i>, the disguised god Odin references Ægir's status as a renowned host among the gods: </p> <dl><dd>'Fleeting visions I have now revealed before the victory-gods's sons,</dd> <dd>now the wished-for protection will awaken;</dd> <dd>to the all the Æsir it will become known,</dd> <dd>on Ægir's benches,</dd> <dd>at Ægir's feast.'<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201455,_290_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201455,_290-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>In <i>Hymiskviða</i>, Ægir plays a major role. In the poem, the gods have become thirsty after a successful hunt, and are keen to celebrate with drink. They "shook the twigs and looked at the <a href="/wiki/Augury" title="Augury">augury</a>" and "found that at Ægir's was an ample choice of cauldrons". Odin goes to Ægir, who he finds sitting in good cheer, and tells him he shall "often prepare a feast for the Æsir". Referring to Ægir as a jötunn, the poem describes how, now annoyed, Ægir hatches a plan: He asks Thor to fetch a particular cauldron, and that with it he could brew ale for them all. The gods are unable to find a cauldron of a size big enough to meet Ægir's request until the god <a href="/wiki/T%C3%BDr" title="Týr">Týr</a> recommends one he knows of far away, setting the stage for the events of the rest of the poem.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201474–75_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201474–75-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the prose introduction to <i>Lokasenna</i>, "Ægir, who is also called Gymir", was hosting a feast "with the great cauldron which has just been told about", which many of the gods and elves attended. The prose introduction describes the feast as featuring gold that shimmers like fire light and ale that serves itself, and that "it was a great place of peace". In attendance also were Ægir's servers, <a href="/wiki/Fimafeng" title="Fimafeng">Fimafeng</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eldir" title="Eldir">Eldir</a>. The gods praise the excellence of their service and, hearing this, Loki murders Fimafeng, enraging the gods, who chase him out to the woods before returning to drink.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201480_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201480-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the poem that follows the prose introduction (and in accompanying prose), Loki returns to the hall and greets Eldir: He says that before Eldir steps forward, he should first tell him what the gods are discussing in the hall. Eldir says that they're discussing weaponry and war, and having nothing good to say about Loki. Loki says that he will enter Ægir's halls and have a look at the feast, and with him bring quarrel and strife. Eldir notifies Loki that if he enters and causes trouble, he can expect them to return it to him. Loki enters the hall and the gods see him and become silent.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201481_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201481-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Helgakvi%C3%B0a_Hundingsbana_I" title="Helgakviða Hundingsbana I">Helgakviða Hundingsbana I</a></i>, a great wave is referred to as "Ægir's terrible daughter".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington2014114_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington2014114-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prose_Edda"><i>Prose Edda</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Prose Edda"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ægir receives numerous mentions in the <i>Prose Edda</i> book <i><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%A1ldskaparm%C3%A1l" title="Skáldskaparmál">Skáldskaparmál</a></i>, where he sits at a banquet and asks the skaldic god <a href="/wiki/Bragi" title="Bragi">Bragi</a> many questions, and Bragi responds with narratives about the gods. The section begins as follows: </p> <table> <tbody><tr> <td> <dl><dd><small>Anthony Faulkes translation (1987):</small></dd> <dd>There was a person whose name was Ægir or Hler. He lived on an island which is now called Hlesey. He was very skilled in magic. He set out to visit Asgard, and when the Æsir became aware of his movements, he was given a great welcome, though many things had deceptive appearances.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199559_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199559-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </td> <td> <dl><dd><small><a href="/wiki/Andy_Orchard" title="Andy Orchard">Andy Orchard</a> translation (1997):</small></dd></dl> <p>There was a figure called Ægir or Hlér; he lived on an island, which is now called Hléysey. He was very crafty in magic. He set off to visit Ásgard, and when the Æsir realized he was coming, he was given a splen did welcome, although many things were not as they seemed;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard19971_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrchard19971-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td> <td> <dl><dd><small><a href="/wiki/John_Lindow" title="John Lindow">J. Lindow</a> translation (2002):</small></dd> <dd>A man was named Ægir or Hlér; he lived on that island which is now called Hlér's Island. He had much magic knowledge. He made his way to Ásgard, but the æsir knew of his journey in advance. He was well received, but many things were done with illusions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200248_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200248-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Beyond this section of <i>Skáldskaparmál</i>, Ægir receives several other mentions in <a href="/wiki/Kenning" title="Kenning">kennings</a>. Section 25 provides examples for 'sea', including 'visitor of the gods', 'husband of Rán', 'father of Ægir's daughters', 'land of Rán and Ægir's daughters'. Kennings cited to <a href="/wiki/Skald" title="Skald">skalds</a> in this section include 'the storm-happy daughters of Ægir' meaning 'waves' (Svein) and a kenning in a fragment of a work by the 11th century Icelandic skald <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hofgar%C3%B0a-Refr_Gestsson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson (page does not exist)">Hofgarða-Refr Gestsson</a>, where Rán is referred to as '<a href="/wiki/Gymir_(father_of_Ger%C3%B0r)" title="Gymir (father of Gerðr)">Gymir</a>'s ... <a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lva" class="mw-redirect" title="Völva">völva</a>': </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%86gir,_ruler_of_the_ocean.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%C3%86gir%2C_ruler_of_the_ocean.jpg/220px-%C3%86gir%2C_ruler_of_the_ocean.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%C3%86gir%2C_ruler_of_the_ocean.jpg/330px-%C3%86gir%2C_ruler_of_the_ocean.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%C3%86gir%2C_ruler_of_the_ocean.jpg/440px-%C3%86gir%2C_ruler_of_the_ocean.jpg 2x" data-file-width="585" data-file-height="483" /></a><figcaption>An anonymous illustration of Ægir published in 1901</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><small>Standardized <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a></small> </p> <dl><dd><i>Ok sem kvað Refr</i>: <dl><dd><i>Fœrir bjǫrn, þar er bára</i></dd> <dd><i>brestr, undinna festa</i></dd> <dd><i>opt í Ægis kjǫpta</i></dd> <dd>*<i>ursǫl Gymis vǫlva</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199537_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199537-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl> </blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"> <p><small>Anthony Faulkes translation</small> </p> <dl><dd>And as Ref said: <dl><dd>Gymir's spray-cold spæ-wife often brings the twisted-rope-bear [ship] into Ægir's jaws [under the waves] where the wave breaks.<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES-1995-91-140_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES-1995-91-140-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl> </blockquote> <p>The section's author comments that the stanza "[implies] that they are all the same, Ægir and Hler and Gymir.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199592_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199592-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Chapter 33b of <i>Skáldskaparmál</i> discusses why skalds may refer to gold as "Ægir's fire". The section traces the kenning to a narrative surrounding Ægir, in which the jötunn employs "glowing gold" in the center of his hall to light it "like fire" (which the narrator compares to flaming swords in <a href="/wiki/Valhalla" title="Valhalla">Valhalla</a>). The section explains that "Ran is the name of Ægir's wife, and the names of their nine daughters are as was written above ... Then the Æsir discovered that Ran had a net in which she caught everyone that went to sea ... so this is the story of the origin of gold being called fire or light or brightness of Ægir, Ran or Ægir's daughters, and from such kennings the practice has now developed of calling gold fire of the sea and of all terms for it, since Ægir and Ran's names are also terms for the sea, and hence gold is now called fire of lakes or rivers and of all river-names."<sup id="cite_ref-FAULKES-1998-95_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAULKES-1998-95-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In chapter 61 provides yet more kennings. Among them the author notes that "Ran, who, it is said, was Ægir's wife" and that "the daughters of Ægir and Ran are nine".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995141_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995141-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In chapter 75, Ægir occurs in a list of jötnar.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995156_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995156-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Saga_corpus">Saga corpus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Saga corpus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In what appears to be a Norwegian genealogical tradition, Ægir is portrayed as one of the three elements among the sea, the fire and the wind. The beginning of the <i><a href="/wiki/Orkneyinga_saga" title="Orkneyinga saga">Orkneyinga saga</a></i> ('Saga of the Orkney Islanders') and <i><a href="/wiki/Hversu_Noregr_bygg%C3%B0ist" title="Hversu Noregr byggðist">Hversu Noregr byggdisk</a></i> ('How Norway Was Settled') tell that the jötunn king <a href="/wiki/Fornj%C3%B3t" title="Fornjót">Fornjót</a> had three sons: Hlér ('sea'), whom he called Ægir, a second named Logi ('fire'), and a third called Kári ('wind').<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200248_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200248-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scholarly_reception_and_interpretation">Scholarly reception and interpretation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Scholarly reception and interpretation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Banquets">Banquets</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Banquets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Carolyne Larrington says that Ægir's role in <i>Hymiskviða</i> "may reflect Scandinavian royal practices in which the king enforces his authority on his subordinates by visiting their homes and demanding to be feasted".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201474_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201474-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Andy_Orchard" title="Andy Orchard">Andy Orchard</a>, Ægir's role in <i>Skáldskaparmál</i>, where he attends a banquet rather than hosting it, could be a deliberate inversion of the traditional motif of Ægir as host.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard19971_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrchard19971-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gymir">Gymir</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Gymir"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name <i>Gymir</i> may indicate that Ægir was understood as the father of the beautiful jötunn <a href="/wiki/Ger%C3%B0r" title="Gerðr">Gerðr</a>; they may also have been two different figures sharing the same name (see <a href="/wiki/Gymir_(father_of_Ger%C3%B0r)" title="Gymir (father of Gerðr)">Gymir, father of Gerðr</a>). Both the prose introduction to <i><a href="/wiki/Lokasenna" title="Lokasenna">Lokasenna</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%A1ldskaparm%C3%A1l" title="Skáldskaparmál">Skáldskaparmál</a></i> state that Ægir is also known as <i>Gymir</i>, the father of the jötunn <a href="/wiki/Ger%C3%B0r" title="Gerðr">Gerðr</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow2002156_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow2002156-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Simek" title="Rudolf Simek">Rudolf Simek</a> argues that, if understood to be two different entities, this may stem from an erroneous interpretation of kennings in which different jötunn-names are used interchangeably.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996126–27_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996126–27-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hlér,_Læsø,_Lejre,_and_Snow"><span id="Hl.C3.A9r.2C_L.C3.A6s.C3.B8.2C_Lejre.2C_and_Snow"></span>Hlér, Læsø, Lejre, and Snow</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hlér, Læsø, Lejre, and Snow"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As highlighted above in <i><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%A1ldskaparm%C3%A1l" title="Skáldskaparmál">Skáldskaparmál</a></i>, the name of the island <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A6s%C3%B8" title="Læsø">Læsø</a> in <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> references Hlér (Old Norse <i>Hléysey</i> 'Hlér's Island'). Simek speculates that Hlér may therefore have been seen as something of an ancestor of the island.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996151_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996151-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two sources list the personified snow, <a href="/wiki/Sn%C3%A6r" title="Snær">Snær</a> (Old Norse 'snow'), as Hlér's son. Book nine of <a href="/wiki/Saxo_Grammaticus" title="Saxo Grammaticus">Saxo Grammaticus</a>'s 12th century history of Denmark <i><a href="/wiki/Gesta_Danorum" title="Gesta Danorum">Gesta Danorum</a></i> contains mention of a figure by the name of <i>Lerus</i> (from Old Norse <i>Hlér</i>) whose son is <i>Snio</i> (from Old Norse <i>Snær</i> 'Snow'). The Danish chronicle of Lejre, <i><a href="/wiki/Chronicon_Lethrense" title="Chronicon Lethrense">Chronicon Lethrense</a></i> also connects the two, and the name <i><a href="/wiki/Lejre" title="Lejre">Lejre</a></i> may, like <i>Læsø</i>, derive from the jötunn.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996151_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996151-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jötunn"><span id="J.C3.B6tunn"></span>Jötunn</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Jötunn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scholars have often discussed Ægir's role as host to the gods and his description as a jötunn. Anthony Faulkes observes that Ægir is "often described by modern writers as god of the sea" yet that he is nowhere described as a god in the <i>Prose Edda</i> and appears in a list of jötnar in <i>Skáldskaparmál</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995299_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995299-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to John Lindow, since his wife Rán is listed among the Ásynjur (goddesses) in the same part of the <i><a href="/wiki/Prose_Edda" title="Prose Edda">Prose Edda</a></i>, and since he had a close and friendly relationship with the <a href="/wiki/%C3%86sir" title="Æsir">Æsir</a> (gods), Ægir's description as a jötunn appears questionable.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200247_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200247-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Andy Orchard argues on the contrary that Ægir's inclusion among the Æsir is probably a late development since his daughters are described as jötnar and some sources mention him as the descendant of the jötunn <a href="/wiki/Fornj%C3%B3t" title="Fornjót">Fornjót</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard19972_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrchard19972-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Simek" title="Rudolf Simek">Rudolf Simek</a>, while attested as a jötunn, Ægir "has characteristics" of a sea god.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek19961_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek19961-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_influence">Modern influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Modern influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Molin5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Molin5.jpg/220px-Molin5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Molin5.jpg/330px-Molin5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Molin5.jpg/440px-Molin5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>J. P. Molin's fountain relief featuring Ægir and his nine daughters</figcaption></figure> <p>Ægir has been the subject of a variety of art pieces. These include <a href="/wiki/Nils_Blomm%C3%A9r" title="Nils Blommér">Nils Blommér</a>'s painting <i>Näcken och Ägirs döttrar</i> (1850), <a href="/wiki/Johan_Peter_Molin" title="Johan Peter Molin">Johan Peter Molin</a>'s (d. 1874) fountain relief <i>Ægir</i>, and <a href="/wiki/Emil_Doepler" title="Emil Doepler">Emil Doepler</a>'s <i>Ægir</i> (1901).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek19962_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek19962-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ægir is referenced in a variety of others ways in modern popular culture. For example, Shoto Todoroki from the Japanese anime "Boku no hero academia" has a move titled "Great Glacial Aegir". He is also the namesake of a Norwegian <a href="/wiki/Corvette" title="Corvette">corvette</a> produced in 1967 (<i>Ægir</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek19962_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek19962-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a coastal defense ship in the Imperial German Navy, and of an exoplanet, <a href="/wiki/Epsilon_Eridani_b" title="Epsilon Eridani b">Epsilon Eridani b</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%86gir&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Brill. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-16797-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-16797-1"><bdi>978-90-04-16797-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Etymological+Dictionary+of+Latin+and+the+other+Italic+Languages&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-90-04-16797-1&rft.aulast=de+Vaan&rft.aufirst=Michiel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A%C3%86gir" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200247-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200247_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200247_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLindow2002">Lindow 2002</a>, p. 47.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970251-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970251_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFde_Vries1970">de Vries 1970</a>, p. 251.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996151-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996151_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996151_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996151_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimek1996">Simek 1996</a>, p. 151.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200218-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200218_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLindow2002">Lindow 2002</a>, p. 18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970197-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970197_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vries1970197_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFde_Vries1970">de Vries 1970</a>, p. 197.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996127-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996127_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996127_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimek1996">Simek 1996</a>, p. 127.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrchard199770-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard199770_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOrchard1997">Orchard 1997</a>, p. 70.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEEinarsson2003149-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEinarsson2003149_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFEinarsson2003">Einarsson 2003</a>, p. 149.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EINARSSON-2003-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-EINARSSON-2003_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Einarsson (2004:149). Formatted for display.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEEinarsson200385-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEinarsson200385_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFEinarsson2003">Einarsson 2003</a>, p. 85.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington2014324-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington2014324_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarrington2014">Larrington 2014</a>, p. 324.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201455,_290-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201455,_290_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarrington2014">Larrington 2014</a>, pp. 55, 290.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201474–75-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201474–75_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarrington2014">Larrington 2014</a>, pp. 74–75.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201480-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201480_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarrington2014">Larrington 2014</a>, p. 80.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201481-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201481_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarrington2014">Larrington 2014</a>, p. 81.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington2014114-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington2014114_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarrington2014">Larrington 2014</a>, p. 114.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199559-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199559_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrchard19971-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard19971_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard19971_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOrchard1997">Orchard 1997</a>, p. 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow200248-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200248_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow200248_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLindow2002">Lindow 2002</a>, p. 48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199537-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199537_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES-1995-91-140-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES-1995-91-140_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 91. This stanza appears quoted a second time later in <i>Skáldskaparmál</i>, for which see <a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 140.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199592-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes199592_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 92.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FAULKES-1998-95-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FAULKES-1998-95_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 95. The chapter continues with discussion regarding the development of these kennings and the concept of allegory.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995141-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995141_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 141.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995156-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995156_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 156.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarrington201474-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarrington201474_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarrington2014">Larrington 2014</a>, p. 74.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELindow2002156-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELindow2002156_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLindow2002">Lindow 2002</a>, p. 156.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek1996126–27-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek1996126–27_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSimek1996">Simek 1996</a>, pp. 126–27.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995299-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFaulkes1995299_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFaulkes1995">Faulkes 1995</a>, p. 299.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrchard19972-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrchard19972_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFOrchard1997">Orchard 1997</a>, p. 2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESimek19961-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESimek19961_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a 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Cassell. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-304-34520-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-304-34520-5"><bdi>978-0-304-34520-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Norse+Myth+and+Legend&rft.pub=Cassell&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-304-34520-5&rft.aulast=Orchard&rft.aufirst=Andy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DuIujQgAACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3A%C3%86gir" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSimek1996" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Simek" title="Rudolf Simek">Simek, Rudolf</a> (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MZ24QgAACAAJ"><i>Dictionary of Northern Mythology</i></a>. D.S. 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href="/wiki/%C3%9Eorger%C3%B0r_H%C3%B6lgabr%C3%BA%C3%B0r_and_Irpa" title="Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa">Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%BA%C3%B0r" title="Þrúðr">Þrúðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1r" title="Vár">Vár</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6r" title="Vör">Vör</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vanir" title="Vanir">Vanir</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freyja" title="Freyja">Freyja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freyr" title="Freyr">Freyr</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ingunar-Freyr" title="Ingunar-Freyr">Ingunar-Freyr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yngvi" title="Yngvi">Yngvi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gersemi" title="Gersemi">Gersemi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gullveig" title="Gullveig">Gullveig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hnoss" title="Hnoss">Hnoss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kvasir" title="Kvasir">Kvasir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nj%C3%B6r%C3%B0r" title="Njörðr">Njörðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sister-wife_of_Nj%C3%B6r%C3%B0r" title="Sister-wife of Njörðr">Sister-wife of Njörðr</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_j%C3%B6tnar_in_Norse_mythology" title="List of jötnar in Norse mythology">Jötnar</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ægir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvaldi" title="Alvaldi">Alvaldi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angrbo%C3%B0a" title="Angrboða">Angrboða</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurbo%C3%B0a" title="Aurboða">Aurboða</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baugi" title="Baugi">Baugi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beli_(j%C3%B6tunn)" title="Beli (jötunn)">Beli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bergelmir" title="Bergelmir">Bergelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bestla" title="Bestla">Bestla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%B6l%C3%BEorn" title="Bölþorn">Bölþorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BDleistr" title="Býleistr">Býleistr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egg%C3%BE%C3%A9r" title="Eggþér">Eggþér</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A1rbauti" title="Fárbauti">Fárbauti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fj%C3%B6lvar" title="Fjölvar">Fjölvar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fornj%C3%B3t" title="Fornjót">Fornjót</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gangr" title="Gangr">Gangr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geirr%C3%B6%C3%B0r" title="Geirröðr">Geirröðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillingr" title="Gillingr">Gillingr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gj%C3%A1lp_and_Greip" title="Gjálp and Greip">Gjálp and Greip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gr%C3%AD%C3%B0r" title="Gríðr">Gríðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunnl%C3%B6%C3%B0" title="Gunnlöð">Gunnlöð</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gymir_(father_of_Ger%C3%B0r)" title="Gymir (father of Gerðr)">Gymir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Har%C3%B0greipr" title="Harðgreipr">Harðgreipr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helblindi" title="Helblindi">Helblindi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helreginn" title="Helreginn">Helreginn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hljod" title="Hljod">Hljod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%A6svelgr" title="Hræsvelgr">Hræsvelgr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%ADmger%C3%B0r" title="Hrímgerðr">Hrímgerðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%ADmgr%C3%ADmnir" title="Hrímgrímnir">Hrímgrímnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hr%C3%ADmnir" title="Hrímnir">Hrímnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hro%C3%B0r" title="Hroðr">Hroðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrungnir" title="Hrungnir">Hrungnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrymr" title="Hrymr">Hrymr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hymir" title="Hymir">Hymir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyrrokkin" title="Hyrrokkin">Hyrrokkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%C3%B0i" title="Iði">Iði</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%8Dm" title="Ím">Ím</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1rnsaxa" title="Járnsaxa">Járnsaxa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laufey_(mythology)" title="Laufey (mythology)">Laufey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leikn" title="Leikn">Leikn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litr" title="Litr">Litr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logi_(mythology)" title="Logi (mythology)">Logi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B6g%C3%BErasir" title="Mögþrasir">Mögþrasir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narfi" title="Narfi">Narfi (father of Nott)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B6kkm%C3%ADmir" title="Sökkmímir">Sökkmímir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surtr" title="Surtr">Surtr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suttungr" title="Suttungr">Suttungr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Ejazi" title="Þjazi">Þjazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B6kk" title="Þökk">Þökk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%ADvaldi" title="Þrívaldi">Þrívaldi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Er%C3%BA%C3%B0gelmir" title="Þrúðgelmir">Þrúðgelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Erymr" title="Þrymr">Þrymr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Atgar%C3%B0a-Loki" title="Útgarða-Loki">Útgarða-Loki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaf%C3%BEr%C3%BA%C3%B0nir" title="Vafþrúðnir">Vafþrúðnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%AD%C3%B0blindi" title="Víðblindi">Víðblindi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vosud" title="Vosud">Vosud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6rnir" title="Vörnir">Vörnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ymir" title="Ymir">Ymir</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_dwarfs_in_Norse_mythology" title="List of dwarfs in Norse mythology">Dwarfs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alv%C3%ADss" title="Alvíss">Alvíss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andvari" title="Andvari">Andvari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austri,_Vestri,_Nor%C3%B0ri_and_Su%C3%B0ri" title="Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri">Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billingr" title="Billingr">Billingr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1inn_(Norse_dwarf)" title="Dáinn (Norse dwarf)">Dáinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durinn" title="Durinn">Durinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%BArnir" title="Dúrnir">Dúrnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dvalinn" title="Dvalinn">Dvalinn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%A1fnir" title="Fáfnir">Fáfnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fjalar_and_Galar" title="Fjalar and Galar">Fjalar and Galar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandalf_(mythology)" title="Gandalf (mythology)">Gandalf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hrei%C3%B0marr" title="Hreiðmarr">Hreiðmarr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litr" title="Litr">Litr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B3tsognir" title="Mótsognir">Mótsognir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%93tr" title="Ótr">Ótr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regin" title="Regin">Regin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Ivaldi" title="Sons of Ivaldi">Sons of Ivaldi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brokkr" title="Brokkr">Brokkr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eitri" title="Eitri">Eitri</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Germanic_heroic_legend" title="Germanic heroic legend">Heroes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="Lists of figures in Germanic heroic legend">List of figures in Germanic heroic legend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_A" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, A"> A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_B%E2%80%93C" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, B–C"> B–C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_D%E2%80%93E" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, D–E"> D–E</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_F%E2%80%93G" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, F–G"> F–G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_H%E2%80%93He" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, H–He"> H–He</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_Hi%E2%80%93Hy" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, Hi–Hy"> Hi–Hy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_I%E2%80%93O" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, I–O"> I–O</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_P%E2%80%93S" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, P–S"> P–S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_figures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend,_T%E2%80%93Y" title="List of figures in Germanic heroic legend, T–Y"> T–Y</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people,_clan,_and_place_names_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="List of people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend">people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_named_animals_and_plants_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="List of named animals and plants in Germanic heroic legend">named animals and plants </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_named_weapons,_armour_and_treasures_in_Germanic_heroic_legend" title="List of named weapons, armour and treasures in Germanic heroic legend">named weapons, armour and treasures</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ask_and_Embla" title="Ask and Embla">Ask and Embla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Au%C3%B0r_(mythology)" title="Auðr (mythology)">Auðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Au%C3%B0umbla" title="Auðumbla">Auðumbla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurvandill" title="Aurvandill">Aurvandill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beyla" title="Beyla">Beyla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borr" title="Borr">Borr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BAri" title="Búri">Búri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byggvir" title="Byggvir">Byggvir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%ADs" title="Dís">Dísir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Landd%C3%ADsir" title="Landdísir">Landdísir</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_dragon" title="Germanic dragon">Dragons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Draugs" class="mw-redirect" title="Draugs">Draugs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Einherjar" title="Einherjar">Einherjar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eldir" title="Eldir">Eldir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elf" title="Elf">Elves</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar" title="Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar">Dark elves (Dökkálfar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%B6kk%C3%A1lfar_and_Lj%C3%B3s%C3%A1lfar" title="Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar">Light elves (Ljósálfar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svart%C3%A1lfar" title="Svartálfar">Black elves (Svartálfar)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fimafeng" title="Fimafeng">Fimafeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fjalar_(rooster)" title="Fjalar (rooster)">Fjalar (rooster)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenrir" title="Fenrir">Fenrir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fj%C3%B6rgyn_and_Fj%C3%B6rgynn" title="Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn">Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fylgja" title="Fylgja">Fylgja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garmr" title="Garmr">Garmr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gullinbursti" title="Gullinbursti">Gullinbursti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hati_Hr%C3%B3%C3%B0vitnisson" title="Hati Hróðvitnisson">Hati Hróðvitnisson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hel_(mythological_being)" title="Hel (mythological being)">Hel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hildisv%C3%ADni" class="mw-redirect" title="Hildisvíni">Hildisvíni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hj%C3%BAki_and_Bil" title="Hjúki and Bil">Hjúki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horses_of_the_%C3%86sir" title="Horses of the Æsir">Horses of the Æsir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81rvakr_and_Alsvi%C3%B0r" title="Árvakr and Alsviðr">Árvakr and Alsviðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bl%C3%B3%C3%B0ugh%C3%B3fi" title="Blóðughófi">Blóðughófi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falh%C3%B3fnir" title="Falhófnir">Falhófnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%ADsl" class="mw-redirect" title="Gísl">Gísl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gla%C3%B0r" title="Glaðr">Glaðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gl%C3%A6r" title="Glær">Glær</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenr" title="Glenr">Glenr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grani" title="Grani">Grani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gullfaxi" title="Gullfaxi">Gullfaxi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulltoppr" title="Gulltoppr">Gulltoppr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyllir" title="Gyllir">Gyllir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamskerpir_and_Gar%C3%B0rofa" title="Hamskerpir and Garðrofa">Hamskerpir and Garðrofa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gn%C3%A1_and_H%C3%B3fvarpnir" title="Gná and Hófvarpnir">Hófvarpnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skinfaxi_and_Hr%C3%ADmfaxi" title="Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi">Skinfaxi and Hrímfaxi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir">Sleipnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sva%C3%B0ilfari" title="Svaðilfari">Svaðilfari</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6r%C3%B0" title="Jörð">Jörð</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr" title="Jörmungandr">Jörmungandr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%ADf_and_L%C3%ADfthrasir" class="mw-redirect" title="Líf and Lífthrasir">Líf and Lífthrasir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loddf%C3%A1fnir" title="Loddfáfnir">Loddfáfnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%B3%C3%B0gu%C3%B0r" title="Móðguðr">Móðguðr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Daughters_of_%C3%86gir_and_R%C3%A1n" title="Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán">Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nine_Mothers_of_Heimdallr" title="Nine Mothers of Heimdallr">Nine Mothers of Heimdallr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narfi_(son_of_Loki)" title="Narfi (son of Loki)">Narfi (son of Loki)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%AD%C3%B0h%C3%B6ggr" title="Níðhöggr">Níðhöggr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norns" title="Norns">Norns</a></li> <li>Personifications <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dagr" title="Dagr">Dagr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elli" title="Elli">Elli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%B3tt" title="Nótt">Nótt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumarr_and_Vetr" title="Sumarr and Vetr">Sumarr and Vetr</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A6hr%C3%ADmnir" title="Sæhrímnir">Sæhrímnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%ADrnir" title="Skírnir">Skírnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sk%C3%B6ll" title="Sköll">Sköll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shield-maiden" title="Shield-maiden">Shield-maiden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanngrisnir_and_Tanngnj%C3%B3str" title="Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr">Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troll" title="Troll">Troll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Ej%C3%A1lfi_and_R%C3%B6skva" title="Þjálfi and Röskva">Þjálfi and Röskva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A6ttir" class="mw-redirect" title="Vættir">Vættir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Landv%C3%A6ttir" title="Landvættir">Landvættir</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1li_(son_of_Loki)" title="Váli (son of Loki)">Váli (son of Loki)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valkyrie" title="Valkyrie">Valkyries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith" title="Wayland the Smith">Völundr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6r%C3%B0r" title="Vörðr">Vörðr</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Locations_in_Norse_mythology" title="Category:Locations in Norse mythology">Locations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Underworld</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hel_(location)" title="Hel (location)">Hel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89lj%C3%BA%C3%B0nir" title="Éljúðnir">Éljúðnir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gjallarbr%C3%BA" title="Gjallarbrú">Gjallarbrú</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%A1str%C3%B6nd" title="Náströnd">Náströnd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niflhel" title="Niflhel">Niflhel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ni%C3%B0afj%C3%B6ll" title="Niðafjöll">Niðafjöll</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Rivers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89liv%C3%A1gar" title="Élivágar">Élivágar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gj%C3%B6ll" title="Gjöll">Gjöll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%8Dfingr" title="Ífingr">Ífingr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerlaugar" title="Kerlaugar">Kerlaugar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6rmt_and_%C3%96rmt" title="Körmt and Örmt">Körmt and Örmt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slidr_River" title="Slidr River">Slidr River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vadgelmir" title="Vadgelmir">Vadgelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vimur_River" title="Vimur River">Vimur River</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d6dbbe;;width:1%">Other locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asgard" title="Asgard">Asgard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amsvartnir" 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