Dís
deity underworld Norse single tradition · 8
Dis is the god of the Underworld who abducts Proserpina. In Claudian's version, Dis yearns for the joys of married love and fatherhood, and threatens to make war on the other gods if he remains alone in Erebus. He is later identified as the consort of Proserpina.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 300 BCE
- Attested period
- -300 – 1300
- Historical notes
- Attested from 3rd century BCE onward in Latin literature.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Parcae, Bil, Hjúki, Man in the Moon, Fraujaz, Thunaraz, Frijjō, Teiwaz, Wōdanaz, Austo, Yngvi, Irmin, Idis, Modron, Suleviae, Matrikas, Dea Matrona, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Persephone, Ceres, Perchta, Holda, Frigg, Nehalennia
- consort of
- Proserpina
- allied with
- Freyja
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Dís”
#12862 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, where the queen hangs herself in the dísarsalr (Old Norse "the Hall of the Dís") after discovering that her husband has betrayed both her father and brother. Näsström comments that "this Dís could hardly be anyone but Freyja herself, the natural leader of the collective female deities called dísir”
#15103 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Holtsmark further theorizes that Bil may have been a dís (a type of female deity).”
#18358 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Dís Freyja Frigg”
#26182 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001