War Between The Aesir And The Vanir Gods In Norse Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Aesir were warlike gods who lived in total separation from the Vanir, the gods of fertility. The Aesir lived in Asgard, and the Vanir, who existed long before the first Aesir gods appeared, lived in Vanaheim.
Left: Gullveig by AncientPages.com; Right: The burning of Gullveig, illustration by Lorenz Frølich from Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange by Karl Gjellerup
They did not always live in harmony. Their conflict is known from The Prose Edda, “Voluspa,” as well as from Snorri’s Edda, “Gylfaginning” and “Skáldskaparmál”.
In the tenth-century poem, “Voluspa”, the seeress, Völva, recounts how the war started between the two tribes.
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