The Dísablót was the blót (sacrificial holiday) which was held in honour of the female spirits or deities called dísir (and the Valkyries), from pre-historic...

goddesses who were the object of both private and official worship called dísablót, and their veneration may derive from the worship of the spirits of the...

beginning of winter during the Old Norse period were álfablót and dísablót. Of these, dísablót came to be a public sacrifice, according to the Ynglinga saga...

the Matron cult of the West Germanic peoples on the one hand, and to the dísablót and the Disting already known from medieval Scandinavia on the other hand...

heathen seasonal festivals and holy periods. These included the Álfablót, Dísablót, Veturnáttablót and Blōtmōnaþ at the beginning of winter, Yule and Mōdraniht...

commemorating the death and resurrection of Attis. Lieldienas in Norse paganism, a Dísablót was celebrated on the vernal equinox. Drowning of Marzanna Spring equinox...

The Iranian new year. (Observed Internationally) Chunfen (East Asia) Dísablót (some Asatru groups) Earth Equinox Day Equinox of the Gods/New Year (Thelema)...

same time as the Christian holiday in a secular manner. Holidays portal Dísablót, an event attested from Old Norse sources as having occurred among the...

a great fair called Disting, and a Norse religious celebration called Dísablót. The Law of Uppland says that it was at this assembly that the king proclaimed...

The Dísablót, by August Malmström....

were deposited in March, which agrees with the written sources on the Dísablót. Sacred trees occur as important symbols in many pre-modern cultures, particularly...

to have marked the beginning of the new year and may be the same as the dísablót, named for the disir, which is recorded in Ynglinga saga as having taken...

March in conjunction with a great fair and a religious celebration called Dísablót. The Law of Uppland informs that it was at this assembly that the king...

English Wyrd), and celebrations were held in their honour, such as the Dísablót and Disting. Chalchiuhtlicue: goddess of water (rivers, seas, storms, etc...

fact that both the market and the thing were held in conjunction with the Dísablót, the great blóts (sacrifices) for female powers called dísir (they include...

connects their veneration to the continental Scandinavian practice of the Dísablót (the sacrifice to the dísir), the Disting (thing of the dísir), and various...

Omd on the island of Andøya. Aðils himself died in a similar way at the Dísablót. Aðils was riding around the Disa shrine when Raven stumbled and fell,...

notes that an autumnal festival aligns with Old Norse attestations of the dísablót, a celebration of the dísir, female beings with parallels to the West Germanic...

of Álfheim, she was very beautiful. One autumn, king Álfr performed the Dísablót, a sacrifice to the goddesses, and Álfhildr took part in it. As she was...

and that she was abducted by Starkad Ala-warrior while performing the Disablot to the Disir. King Alf calls on Thor who kills Starkad and liberates Alfhild3...

Midwinter blót at the Temple at Uppsala, which from this time was called the Disablot and the Disting. The saga has been treated by Johan Celsius in the prose...

hanging in the sacred grove at Uppsala without mentioning to whom, see Dísablót (goddess sacrifice). Ynglingatal (10), Ynglinga saga, Historia Norwegiæ...

Alfhild3, the daughter of king Alf of Alfheimr, when she is performing the Disablot to the Disir. King Alf calls on Thor who kills Starkad and liberates Alfhild3...