Norse Mythology: The Unofficial Guide

Episode 19 - The Goddesses Time Forgot

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Our sources for Norse mythology are pretty male-centric. But even so, when we tally up the names of all the gods we have vs. all the goddesses, it turns out we actually have a lot more goddess names than gods. Goddesses certainly played an important role in the lived religion of ancient Scandinavians, so this episode is a tribute to a few of the goddesses forgotten by time.

Sources:

  • “Germania” by Publius Cornelius Tacitus, 1st century
  • “Great Goddess Theory in Ancient Germanic Studies” by Joseph S. Hopkins, 2019
  • “Goddesses Unknown I: Njǫrun and the Sister-Wife of Njǫrðr” by Joseph S. Hopkins, 2012
  • “Goddesses Unknown II: On the Apparent Old Norse Goddess Ilmr” by Joseph S. Hopkins, 2014
  • “Goddesses Unknown III: On the Identity of the Old Norse Goddess Hlín” by Joseph S. Hopkins, 2017
  • “Heimskringla”, transl. by Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes, 2011
  • “Meeting the Other in Norse Myth and Legend” by John McKinnell, 2005
  • “The Poetic Edda”, transl. by Carolyne Larrington, 2014
  • “The Prose Edda”, transl. by Anthony Faulkes, 1995

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