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    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...
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    Dís (section Dísablót)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    commemorating the death and resurrection of Attis. Lieldienas in Norse paganism, a Dísablót was celebrated on the vernal equinox. Drowning of Marzanna Spring equinox...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • The Iranian new year. (Observed Internationally) Chunfen (East Asia) Dísablót (some Asatru groups) Earth Equinox Day Equinox of the Gods/New Year (Thelema)...
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    heathen seasonal festivals and holy periods. These included the Álfablót, Dísablót, Veturnáttablót and Blōtmōnaþ at the beginning of winter, Yule and Mōdraniht...
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  • The Dísablót, by August Malmström....
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • connects their veneration to the continental Scandinavian practice of the Dísablót (the sacrifice to the dísir), the Disting (thing of the dísir), and various...
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    English Wyrd), and celebrations were held in their honour, such as the Dísablót and Disting. Chalchiuhtlicue: goddess of water (rivers, seas, storms, etc...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    hanging in the sacred grove at Uppsala without mentioning to whom, see Dísablót (goddess sacrifice). Ynglingatal (10), Ynglinga saga, Historia Norwegiæ...
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