vanir

Old Norse

Etymology

Plural of vanr. Related to Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“accustomed”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”).

Proper noun

vanir m pl

  1. the principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir.
  2. members of the Swedish royal family whose ancestry is traditionally traced to one of the Vanir deities.

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