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- Mother goddess
- Wife of Odin
- Weaves clouds
- She knows events in the present and future but is powerless to change them
- Learns of her son's (Balder) death, makes everything promise not to harm him (except mistletoe)
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- Chief of the gods
- Father of Thor, Balder, and other gods
- pierces himself with a spear and hands on Yggdrasil for 9 days and nights to learn the secret knowledge of runes
- has one eye because he traded it for a drink form the spring of clairvoyance
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- God of thunder and lightening
- Mjolnir (ax-hammer that can destroy giants and mountains in a single blow)
- Has a chariot pulled by 2 goats (he can kill them and eat them and they will come back to life)
- constantly fighting the World Serpent (Jormungand)
- capable of drinking an ocean
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- God of poetry and elegance
- Loki calls him "Braggart" and the verb "to brag" comes from his name
- Married to Idun
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- God of agriculture, fertility, and plenty
- Twin to Freyja
- Unlike the other gods, Freyr and Freyja are earth dieties
- Has a sword that can fight by itself
- The boar is his symbol
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- Goddess of love and fertility
- Twin sister to Frey
- Slept with 4 dwarfs to get a necklace, which becomes her symbol of fertility
- Leader of the Valkyries
- She takes some of the dead warriors for herself
- Has a chariot drawn by cats
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- "World Brightener"
- God of the dawn
- Great hearing (can hear grass grow) and eyesight
- Is the look out on Bifrost (the rainbow bridge to Asgard)
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- God of mischief and fire
- Trickster figure
- Unknown parentage
- Responsible for Balder's death and punished by having snake venom drip on his forehead
- Jormungand, Hel, and Fenrir are his children
- Will begin Ragnorak
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- Daughter of Loki
- Giantess
- Goddess of death and underworld
- Half black/half white
- her face and body are human but the legs are of a corpse
- Has 2 servants: Ganglati and Ganglot
- Spread the plague with a rake or a broom
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Midgard
Home of humanity
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Jotunheim
home of the giants |
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Svartalfheim
home of the dark elves |
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Muspelheim
home of the fire demons
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Niffleheim
frozen realm of the dishonored dead |
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