Heimdallr
Heimdallr is a god among the Norse pantheon who participates in divine assemblies and offers counsel to other gods. He proposed the plan to disguise Thor as a bride to recover the stolen hammer from the jötnar.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 CE
- Attested period
- 500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Referenced in the Prose Edda and Sörla þáttr.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Óttar, Þórr, Thor, Njörðr, Vættir, Hildisvíni, Frigg, Freyr, Ægir, Sif, Óðr, Hnoss, Diana, Dyaus, Oðinn, Mímir, Einherjar, Fenrir, Odin
- enemy of
- Loki
- manifests as
- seal
Mentioned by
- Thor
- Njörðr
- Vættir
- Hildisvíni
- Frigg
- Freyr
- Ægir
- Sif
- Óðr
- Hnoss
- Diana
- Dyaus
- Oðinn
- Mímir
- Einherjar
- Fenrir
and 2 more
Sources
Source passages
“In chapter 8, ways of referring to the god Heimdallr are provided, including 'Loki's enemy, recoverer of Freyja's necklace', inferring a myth involving Heimdallr recovering Freyja's necklace from Loki.”
#12646 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“she enlists the help of Heimdallr to help her search for it. Eventually they find the thief, who turns out to be Loki and who has transformed himself into a seal. Heimdallr turns into a seal as well and fights Loki”
#15087 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The Scandinavian god Heimdallr performs an analogous function: he is born first and will die last. He too gives origin to kingship and the first king, bestowing on him regal prerogatives.”
#18702 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“A further argument against the reference to heathen gods necessarily meaning a heathen writer is that Christian stone carvings dating to the Viking Age from both England and Mann are thought to depict Óðinn and Heimdallr.”
#38248 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“After the god Heimdallr awakens all the gods by blowing his horn Gjallarhorn, they will assemble at a thing, Óðinn will ride to the well Mímisbrunnr and consult Mímir on behalf of himself and his people, the world tree Yggdrasil will shake, and then the Æsir and the einherjar will don their war gear”
#38387 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001