![]() ![]() Although Snorri does not explicitly name her as one of the asunjar, he also does not name every goddess counted in this number. As a chooser of life and death, she is sometimes associated with the Norns. ![]() ![]() While the other Valkyries chose the slain, Eir would choose who would live and recover, and return to health. The Ýdalir site does attempt a synthesis, to their credit:Īs a Valkyrie, Eir accompanied her battle-sisters. Modern pagans have mostly shrugged off this inconsistency, mainly seeing Eir as a goddess of healing like the Celtic Sulis, Coventina or Sirona, or the Greek Hygeia. (You could read this last sentence as if Eir was a norn, making you wonder what sort of a being she was, or if anyone even knew.) There’s a lot of inconsistency in Snorri (he makes Thor Odin’s father in his Prologue), but it seems as if he either changed his mind about Eir or interpreted what he knew about her differently in each section. They are called norns who shape necessity. Then are listed Hrund and Eir, Hrist, Skuld. There are yet others, Odin’s maids, Hild and Gondul, Hlokk, Mist, Skogul. In the first, he calls her a goddess, one of the many minor goddesses who cluster around Frigg, but in the second he calls her a valkyrie. Snorri Sturluson, who set out to explain Norse mythology in his Prose Edda, explains Eir in two different ways in the two main books, Gylfaginning and Skaldskaparmal. Eir is a puzzling figure in Norse mythology. ![]()
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