God of War category

Vanir

1 entry tagged Vanir, 1 of them a long read. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Nerthus: the Vanir queen killed by the sons of Thor.

Nerthus: the Vanir queen killed by the sons of ThorNerthus was the Vanir goddess of earth and fertility, queen of Vanaheim beside Njörd and mother of the twins Freya and Freyr. She fought in the Aesir-Vanir War and was cut down in one of its battles by Magni and Modi, a killing that drove her husband to sink an Asgardian fleet and left her daughter to buy the peace her mother had died fighting for.