Austri
nature_spirit earth Norse single tradition · 3
A male being described as a "spirit of light" attested to in the Old Norse Prose Edda book Gylfaginning. Grimm comments that a female version would have been *Austra, yet that the High German and Saxon peoples seem to have only formed Ostarâ and Eástre, feminine, and not Ostaro and Eástra, masculine.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 CE
- Attested period
- 500 – 1400
- Historical notes
- Attested in the Prose Edda (c. 1220 CE).
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Four sons of Horus, Diggaja, Dikpali, Maitei Ngaakpa Lai, H₂éwsōs, Ēostre, Ostara, Bhairavas, Four Heavenly Kings, Mahavidyas, Matrikas, Bacabs
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Grimm notes that the Old Norse Prose Edda book Gylfaginning attests to a male being called Austri, whom he describes as a "spirit of light."”
#18220 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Also related are the Old Norse Austri, described in the Gylfaginning as one of four dwarves that guard the four cardinal points (with him representing the east)”
#18250 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri”
#34354 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001