mythology
I think what we get of Norse myth and belief is heavily filtered by time, place and population. A lot of what we get is medieval, Icelandic, male, upper class sources. There are a lot of Aesir and Vanir we barely know about, but they obviously must’ve been important to farmers, fishers and women (so practically everyone). I also think regional devotion to the disir was huge and largely lost.
Why are there *three* war/chief gods? Could that actually reflect regional cults?
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@Leucrotta yes! I really wish we had more about the vanir, and I think the split of the “sky god” job with Odin/Tyr/Thor is really interesting and must have had some unusual root cause. It’s pretty unusual in an Indo-European context I think
