plural dísir [ˈdiːsez̠]) is a female deity, ghost, or spirit associated with Fate who can be either benevolent or antagonistic toward mortals. Dísir may...

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...

holiday) which was held in honour of the female spirits or deities called dísir (and the Valkyries), from pre-historic times until the Christianization...

attested among other Germanic peoples (specifically those involving the dísir, collective female ancestral beings, and Yule), and the Germanic Matres...

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...

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...

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...

pagan burials and small silver female figures interpreted as valkyries or dísir, beings associated with war, fate or ancestor cults. By way of historical...

between norns, fylgjas, hamingjas, and valkyries, nor with the generic term dísir. Moreover, artistic license permitted such terms to be used for mortal women...

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...

available evidence actually is. Gunnell, Terry (2005). "The Season of the Dísir: The Winter Nights and the Dísarblót in Early Scandinavian Belief". Cosmos:...

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...

German, the Merseburg Incantations. More generally, in Norse mythology, the Dísir ('ladies') are fate goddesses who can be both benevolent and antagonistic...

Centaur, Abanasinian Centaur, Crystalmir Centaur, Endscape Centaur, Wendle Disir Time of the Dragon (1989) Draconian (proto-), Traag Time of the Dragon (1989)...

that prior to this these goddesses were considered among the collective dísir, and were, in turn, related to the Germanic Matronae. Orchard (1997:157)...

emerges as the mythological role model for the Valkyrjar [sic] and the dísir." Gustav Neckel, writing in 1920, connects Freyja to the Phrygian goddess...

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...

leader of the Disir, she was the first one to be cursed by Bor due to their rebellion when working with Sigurd Göndul – a member of the Disir, she is a coward...

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...

A number of legendary creatures appear in Germanic mythology, such as dísir, fylgjur, draugar, dwarfs, elves, as well as jötnar, goblins, giants, trolls...

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...

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...

Co. pp. lvi–lvii. Ólína Þorvarðardóttir (1987). "Sæbúar, vatnaverur og dísir". Íslenskar þjóðsögur: álfar og tröll (in Icelandic). Bóka- og blaðaútgáfan...

'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...

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...

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...

gallego, sesean y por lo mismo al hablar el español común: 'dose', 'lus', 'disir', 'conoser', 'rasión', 'empesar" (27). [Rabanal (1967) characterized seseo...

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...

families. Hamingjur, dísir and swanmaidens are female supernatural figures of uncertain stature within the belief system; the dísir may have functioned...

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...