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Njord and his children joined the Æsir as Vanir hostages after the Æsir/Vanir war.
Njord is the Old Norse equivalent of the goddess Nerthus described by Tacitus. It has been suggested by Hilda R. Ellis Davidson in Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (1964) that there was possibly originally a male and female pair of deities, Njord and Nerthus, with Freyr later replacing Nerthus. She also makes the point that there were other male/female pairings of Norse gods of whom little is known but their names, e.g. Ullr and Ullin.The comparative mythologist Georges Dumézil developed the idea introduced by Jacob Grimm that the hero Hadding in Saxo Grammaticus' Danish History, Book I, might be an euhemerized version of Njord. This suggestion was used by science-fiction/fantasy writer Poul AndersonPoul Anderson ( November 25, 1926 July 31, 2001) was a prolific science fiction author of the Golden Age; some of his short stories were first published using the pseudonyms "A. Craig", "Michael Karageorge", and "Winston P. Poul Anderson has also written in his War of the Gods.
In Viktor Rydberg's idiosyncratic and generally unaccepted reconstruction of Norse mythology Njord was also known as "Fridlief", the Lover of Frith. With Hodur, he undertook a mission of peace to Weland and Egil, which they refused. He rescued his son Freyr from the giants later on. During the war between Æsir and Vanir, he led the attack on Asgard and won. While he was gone from Vanaheim, Loki tried to take over there, but Njord defeated him in battle and routed him.
How Njord met Skadi The Æsir once for no appearent reason killed skadi's father. She put on her ski and skied all the way to valhalla. The gods agreed that they would have to repay her in some way. She would be able to choose any of the males as her hospent. But she was only allowed to look at the feet. She looked long at all of the feet, and she chose the pair she liked best, thinking it was Balder, However it wasn't, it was Njord. Although they loved eachother very much, their marriage wasn't the best. Skadi lived in a winter landscape, and Njord didn't like being woken up all the time by the wolves, he could hardly sleep anyway because it was so cold, and Skadi couldn't take living in a spring forrest, being woken early by the birds. And she thought it was a little too warm. But they decided to live a week at each place, and it worked well for them.
| Preceded by: OdinWotan Wodan Woden Oden Odin or dinn is usually considered the supreme god of Germanic and Norse mythology. His role, like many of the Norse pantheon, is complex: he is god of both wisdom and war, roles not necessarily conceived of as being mutually sympat | Mythological king of Sweden | Succeeded by: Yngvi- Freyr |