Episode 19 - The Goddesses Time Forgot

Norse Mythology: The Unofficial Guide

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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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Celebration by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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