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Vanaheim
Home of the Vanir gods associated with fertility, wisdom, and nature—including Freya, Freyr, and Njord.
About Vanaheim
Vanir home, thinly described
Vanaheim is named as the Vanir's land. The Aesir-Vanir war ends in hostages: Njord, Frey, and Freyja come to Asgard; Hoenir and Mimir go the other way. Snorri locates Njord in Vanaheim at the beginning. The poems do not give a city, a river, or a temple plan. Fertility and seid attach to the Vanir as persons, not to a described landscape. Admit the gap: Vanaheim is a label more than a tour.
Sources and further reading
Source notes
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- Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda, Gylfaginning
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