Vanaheimr

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Vanaheimr , Old Norse for "place of residence of the Wanen", also Germanized Wanenheim , is the place in Norse mythology where the god Njörd grew up. In the mythical worldview of Snorri Sturluson (especially in his Prose Edda ), however, Wanenheim stands for the place of residence of the Wanen or the world of the Wanen. This understanding as a divine counterworld to Asgard probably does not go back to a mythical tradition, but to an interpretation of Snorri Sturluson.

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Individual evidence

  1. Lieder-Edda , Vafþrúðnismál , verse 39.
  2. ^ Snorri Sturluson: Prose Edda , Gylfaginning , chapter 23.
  3. ^ Rudolf Simek: Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X , p. 459.