Grottasöngr: giantesses vs. the king
You wouldn’t expect a Norse myth to be a parable on economic exploitation, and how bad deeds rebound on the doer. Grottasöngr, a story of how king Frodi forced two giantesses to work a mill without...
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Eir: Goddess, Valkyrie and Healer
Eir is a puzzling figure in Norse mythology. 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...
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Hestia: Domestic Goddess
At a time when we’re all staying at home and trying to find ways to make it interesting (provided we’re not ill), it might be worth taking a look at the hearth-goddess Hestia. She tends to be...
View ArticleAirmid – Celtic Goddess of Healing and Herbal Lore (reblog)
Airmid, also known as Airmed or Airmeith, is the Celtic Goddess of the Healing Arts. She was a member of the Tuatha De Danaan, the most ancient race of deities in Ireland and just as they did, she had...
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The Rex Nemorensis – King of the Wood: The Ghastly Priest who Slew the Slayer...
Under the influence! Image by Gerson Martinez from Pixabay “From the still glassy lake that sleepsBeneath Aricia’s trees –Those trees in whose dim shadowThe ghastly priest doth reign,The priest who...
View ArticleHow the new Wall gods came to be: the case of the Veteres (reblog)
There are some intriguing deities on Hadrian’s Wall. Some might have been ‘born’ or ‘re-born’ when incomers from foreign lands, trying to make sense of their new situation, created brand new ‘gods of...
View ArticleThe Ambiguous Status of the Tuatha De Danann
My post on the Irish goddess Airmid provoked a discussion on whether the Tuatha de Danann were really deities, or just heroic individuals. The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. The Irish were...
View ArticleChloris: Goddess of New Growth and Flowers (reblog)
Springtime: A time of renewal, warm breezes and the return of all things green! A time when the worries and drudgery of winter melt away and make room for the new, a promise of things to come. The...
View ArticleAphrodite: Sea goddess of the ancient Greeks (reblog)
Aphrodite is today best-known as the ‘goddess of love,’ but among the ancient Greeks she was also important in maritime religion, trade and travel. Read more here. Image by Pexels from Pixabay.
View ArticleThe Last Post
It seems like a long time since I started this blog five years ago. The first post was published on January 15, 2015, which seems like an awfully long time ago. Over time, people started reading and...
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