Kvasir

In Norse mythology, Kvasir was a sage who arose from the saliva of the gods, the Aesir and the Vanes . They spat into a jug to seal the end of their conflict. The sir then formed the sage Kvasir. All the people he met stopped their activities to listen to him. Kvasir's end came with the dwarves Fjalar and Galar , who killed him to gain his wisdom. They brewed mead from his blood and honey, which bestowed poetry on anyone who drank from it.

See also

• Odin
• Skaldenmet

literature

• Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X .