valkyrie

One of a host of female figures who decide which soldiers die in battle and which live

A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.

Accounts kept apart

Overview

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Connections

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Keep exploring

The Æsir and Vanir as the Eddas tell them, and what the archaeology says instead.