that the dísir were valkyrie-like guardians of the dead, and indeed in Guðrúnarkviða I 19 the valkyries are even called Herjans dísir "Odin's dísir". The...
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holiday) which was held in honour of the female spirits or deities called dísir (and the Valkyries), from pre-historic times until the Christianization...
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attested among other Germanic peoples (specifically those involving the dísir, collective female ancestral beings, and Yule), and the Germanic Matres...
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have been assumed or theorized between the idisi and the North Germanic dísir; female beings associated with fate, as well as the amended place name Idistaviso...
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Landdísir (category Dísir)
Dísablót (the sacrifice to the dísir), the Disting (thing of the dísir), and various Scandinavian place names involving the dísir where worship may have occurred...
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Freyja herself, the natural leader of the collective female deities called dísir, and the place of the queen's suicide seems thus to be connected with Freyja...
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pagan burials and small silver female figures interpreted as valkyries or dísir, beings associated with war, fate or ancestor cults. By way of historical...
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between norns, fylgjas, hamingjas, and valkyries, nor with the generic term dísir. Moreover, artistic license permitted such terms to be used for mortal women...
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available evidence actually is. Gunnell, Terry (2005). "The Season of the Dísir: The Winter Nights and the Dísarblót in Early Scandinavian Belief". Cosmos:...
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been a revolt. The revolt is quickly put down by the Dísir under Mephisto's command. The Dísir leader Brün tries to negotiate with Mephisto because she...
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German, the Merseburg Incantations. More generally, in Norse mythology, the Dísir ('ladies') are fate goddesses who can be both benevolent and antagonistic...
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Centaur, Abanasinian Centaur, Crystalmir Centaur, Endscape Centaur, Wendle Disir Time of the Dragon (1989) Draconian (proto-), Traag Time of the Dragon (1989)...
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being, cognate to the North Germanic dísir Dísablót, a North Germanic sacrifice holiday held in honour of dísir Stuart (1916:5). Birley (1999:42). Rives...
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prey to the Disir. The Disir, still hungry, attack Hela's new Hel as it was not the true Hel they were banished from. Sensing the Disir's assault on the...
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emerges as the mythological role model for the Valkyrjar [sic] and the dísir." Gustav Neckel, writing in 1920, connects Freyja to the Phrygian goddess...
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A number of legendary creatures appear in Germanic mythology, such as dísir, fylgjur, draugar, dwarfs, elves, as well as jötnar, goblins, giants, trolls...
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immediately grows fond of Daimon and asks him to be his new master. After the Disir attack, Thori helps Thor, Loki, and the Warriors Three go to Sigurd and...
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Brepols. pp. 1051–1121. ISBN 978-2-503-57489-9. Lindow, John (2020e). "Dísir". In Schjødt, Jens Peter; Lindow, John; Andrén, Anders (eds.). The Pre-Christian...
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Co. pp. lvi–lvii. Ólína Þorvarðardóttir (1987). "Sæbúar, vatnaverur og dísir". Íslenskar þjóðsögur: álfar og tröll (in Icelandic). Bóka- og blaðaútgáfan...
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at sea. Other female deities such as the valkyries, the norns, and the dísir are associated with a Germanic concept of fate (Old Norse Ørlög, Old English...
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with the Dísablót, the great blóts (sacrifices) for female powers called dísir (they include the Norns and the Valkyries) at the Temple at Uppsala. They...
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went São Paulo to defend it from Dísir, who have taken control over South America. Champions started fighting them, Dísir's leader Brün attacked Ms. Marvel...
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'dream-woman' and the bad here are also difficult to distinguish from the dísir according to Carolyne Larrington. It is hardly surprising in medieval context...
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gallego, sesean y por lo mismo al hablar el español común: 'dose', 'lus', 'disir', 'conoser', 'rasión', 'empesar" (27). [Rabanal (1967) characterized seseo...
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again returns to halt the wedding between Asgardian Sigurd and Valkyrie Dísir, causing much ire with the two as well as Danielle Moonstar, Hela, and Loki...
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Sefa Josette Simon as The Euchdag Barry Aird as Beroun Frances Tomelty as Disir Alexandra Dowling as Kara Gordon Munro as Alrick John Shrapnel as King Sarrum...
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families. Hamingjur, dísir and swanmaidens are female supernatural figures of uncertain stature within the belief system; the dísir may have functioned...
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such as MISA, DISIR, and COFEPOSA. During the emergency 34,988 people were arrested under MISA, and 75,818 people were arrested under DISIR. This included...
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