Relation To Other Germanic Female Deities
See also: Female spirits in Germanic paganismThere is no clear distinction between norns, fylgjas, hamingjas and valkyries, nor with the generic term dísir. Moreover, artistic license permitted such terms to be used for mortal women in Old Norse poetry, or to quote Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál on the various names used for women:
- Woman is also metaphorically called by the names of the Asynjur or the Valkyrs or Norns or women of supernatural kind.
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