Pantheon Norse and Germanic
Norse mythology
The body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples
- Members 131 on record
- Generations 5, as the accounts give them
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
A family photograph
Each row stands a generation below the row above it, as the accounts give their kinship. Membership is what the records say.
What this means
131 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
The rows are counted from the kinship among the members themselves, as the accounts give it: a member whose parent is also a member stands a row below that parent. This is kinship inside the accounts — what the myths and the texts say, not a documented family — and where they disagree, every recorded parent is counted. Where the accounts loop — Gaia is Uranus’s mother and his consort — the loop is cut, not resolved. A documented human family is not drawn here, and neither is a member with no account kinship to another; both are listed below.
Kinship as the accounts give it,
not a documented family.
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I Eldest on record
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NjordConsort of Skaði and Sister-wife of Njörðr -
SkaðiConsort of Njord - Sister-wife of NjörðrConsort of Njord
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Bragi -
Höðr -
Sif - Angrboða
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Búri -
Hermod - Dellingr
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Óðr - Járnsaxa
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Suttungr - Vár
- Laufey
- Lofn
- Meili
- Mundilfari
- Fárbauti
- Bölþorn
- Gríðr
- Syn
- Narfi
- Fornjótr
- Naglfari
- AurboðaConsort of Gymir
- GymirConsort of Aurboða
- Annar
- Glenr
- Fjörgynn
- Nepr
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II A generation below
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FreyjaChild of Njord and Sister-wife of Njörðr -
FreyrChild of Njord and Sister-wife of Njörðr -
UllChild of Sif - BorrChild of Búri
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IðunnChild of Óðr -
GunnlöðChild of Suttungr -
LokiChild of Laufey and Fárbauti - BýleistrChild of Laufey and Fárbauti
- HelblindiChild of Laufey and Fárbauti
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SólChild of Mundilfari
- BestlaChild of Bölþorn
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VíðarrChild of Gríðr -
NóttChild of Narfi - LogiChild of Fornjótr
- KáriChild of Fornjótr
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GerðrChild of Aurboða and Gymir -
FriggChild of Fjörgynn -
NannaChild of Nepr
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III A generation below
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SigynChild of Freyja -
GersemiChild of Freyja and Óðr - HnossChild of Freyja and Óðr
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ViliChild of Borr and Bestla -
VéChild of Borr and Bestla -
FenrirChild of Loki and Angrboða -
JörmungandrChild of Loki and Angrboða -
HelChild of Loki and Angrboða -
JörðChild of Nótt and Annar -
DagrChild of Nótt and Dellingr -
BaldurChild of Frigg
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IV A generation below
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V A generation below
Members · 96
Everyone it counts
Gods first, then people — including those the photograph leaves out.
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Thor Hammer-wielding Norse god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oaks, strength, and fertility -
Freyja Goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr in Norse mythology -
Loki Norse god of mischief, trickery, and deception -
valkyrie One of a host of female figures who decide which soldiers die in battle and which live -
Frigg Norse deity -
Baldur Norse god associated with light, beauty, love and happiness -
Hel Goddess of the underworld in Norse mythology -
Njord One of the Vanir, a group of gods within Norse mythology -
Freyr Norse god associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest -
Bragi Skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology -
Forseti Norse god of peace, truth, and justice -
Höðr Norse deity
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Iðunn Norse goddess -
Ull Norse deity -
Víðarr Norse deity -
Mímir Norse god of wisdom -
Skaði Norse deity -
Hœnir Norse deity -
Sól Norse deity
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Jörð Earth goddess in Norse mythology -
Rán Norse deity -
Hermod Norse deity -
Nanna Norse deity -
Sigyn Mythical wife of Loki - Kvasir Norse deity
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Gerðr Norse deity; giantess -
Fulla Norse deity -
Gefjon Norse deity - Dellingr Norse god
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Óðr Nordic god -
Vili Norse deity -
Hlín Norse deity - Snotra Norse deity
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Lóðurr Norse deity - Eir Norse deity
- Vár Norse deity
- Laufey Norse mythical character; goddess
- Lofn Norse deity
- Meili Norse deity
- Vör Norse deity
- Gná Norse deity
- Sjöfn Norse deity
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Vé Norse deity - Syn Norse deity
- Gaut Deity
- Kári Personification of wind in Norse mythology
- Njörun Norse deity
- Ríg Norse deity
- Annar Norse deity
- Glenr Norse god
- Ilmr Norse deity
- Fjörgynn Norse god
- Nepr Father of the goddess Nanna in Norse mythology
- Hold Nickar Scandinavian god
- Sister-wife of Njörðr Norse mythological character
- Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr Norse deity
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Fenrir Monstrous wolf in Norse mythology -
Jörmungandr World Serpent in Norse mythology -
Ragnar Lodbrok Legendary king of Denmark and Sweden - Ivar Ragnarsson King of Jorvik
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Sif Norse goddess, wife of Thor -
Surtr Norse mythical character - Angrboða Norse mythical character; giantess
- Borr Norse mythical character
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Búri Norse mythical character -
Nótt Norse mythical character - Bestla Norse mythical character
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Þrúðr Thor's daughter in Norse mythology -
Aslaug Figure in Norse mythology, the third wife of Ragnar Lodbrok -
Dagr Deity -
Hymir Norse giant - Járnsaxa Giantess in Norse mythology
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Wayland the Smith Germanic mythological blacksmith -
Suttungr Norse mythical character -
Gullveig Norse mythical character - Mundilfari Norse mythical character
- Rindr Norse mythical character (Giantess)
- Fárbauti Norse mythical character; giant
- Bölþorn Giant in Norse mythology
- Gríðr Norse female jötunn
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Gunnlöð Giantess in Norse mythology - Narfi Giant, father of Nótt in Norse mythology
- Fornjótr Norse mythical character; giant
- Nibelung Norse/German clan name
- Býleistr Norse mythical character
- Logi Norse mythical character
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Gersemi Norse mythical character - Hnoss Old Norse Goddess; fictional character
- Naglfari Norwegian mythological creature
- Helblindi Norse mythical character
- Aurboða Norse mythical character
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Þökk Jötunn in Norse mythology - Alvaldi Norse mythical character
- Gymir Norse mythical character
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Sigfred King of Denmark - Váli Figure in Norse mythology, son of Loki
Other records · 35
What else names it
Pantheons, texts and stories whose own records name Norse mythology.
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PantheonÆsir
Gods in Germanic paganism -
PantheonVanir
Group of norse gods associated with fertility, wisdom and the ability to see the future -
TextVöluspá
Poem from the Poetic Edda -
StoryAskr and Embla
First two humans, created by the gods in Norse mythology from trees -
TextHávamál
Poem in the Poetic Edda -
PantheonFinnish mythology
Nordic mythology -
TextGrímnismál
Poem from the Poetic Edda -
TextVafþrúðnismál
Eddic poem
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Text Ynglinga saga Literary work -
Text Hyndluljóð Old Norse poem often considered part of the Poetic Edda - Text Skírnismál Eddic poem
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Text Alvíssmál Poem from the Poetic Edda -
Text Hárbarðsljóð Poem of the Poetic Edda - Text Hymiskviða OId Norse poem in the Poetic Edda
- Text Ynglingatal Literary work
- Text Hákonarmál Old Norse skaldic poem – 'The Song of Hákon'
- Text Sigrdrífumál Poem
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Text Svipdagsmál Old Norse poem - Text Fáfnismál Eddic poem
- Pantheon Ásynjur Plural feminine of Æsir
- Text Oddrúnargrátr Poem
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Text Atlakviða Poem in the Poetic Edda - Text Atlamál Poem
- Text Reginsmál Eddic poem
- Text Hamðismál Poem in the Poetic Edda
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Text Helreið Brynhildar Poem - Text Brot af Sigurðarkviðu Fragmentary eddic poem
- Text Grípisspá Eddic poem
- Text Guðrúnarhvöt Eddic poem
- Text Guðrúnarkviða II Probably the oldest poem of the Sigurd cycle
- Text Sigurðarkviða hin skamma Poem
- Text Dráp Niflunga Short prose section in the Poetic Edda
- Text Guðrúnarkviða III Poem
- Story Norse creation myth Story of the creation of the cosmos in Norse mythology
- Story Thor's Journey to Utgard Story in Norse mythology
Connections
How Norse mythology connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
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 that the culture was religiously uniform · a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
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.
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