Originally Loki was the trickster god in Norse mythology.

Names of female viking gods. Poetic Edda Prose Edda Gesta Danorum Historia Langobardorum. While Freya is the name of every other female husky Loki is the male equivalent. But even the older more resonant names from the Viking Age are not forgotten.

The name for a group of goddesses of fate and fertility in old-Scandinavian mythology. The Godchecker Holy Database currently contains 431 Norse. Lagertha is famous as the woman that saved the great Ragnar Lothbrok twice.

If you include nicknames official titles and honorifics some gods have hundreds of names. The complete alphabetical list of Norse Gods and Goddess names. Poetic Edda Prose Edda Heimskringla Sörla þáttr.

Freyr was the goddess of fertility goddess of inferior rank. This was the name of the goddess of love beauty war and death in Norse mythology. Helga Means divine woman and was the name of a princess of the Kievan Rus in the 10 th century who was later sainted.

In 2017 CE Uppsala University archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson published her study of a Viking grave discovered in Birka Sweden in the 1800s CE which she and her team had revisitedShe claimed that what was formerly understood as a Viking warriors grave was that of a woman confirmed by DNA tests and that this proved that female Viking warriors existed during the Viking. It derives from Freyja meaninglady. Freyja Old Norse See List of names of Freyja for more Lady Freyr Óðr.

On top of that the Vikings also had and used bynames to indicate kinship and in other cases the places where people. Many legendary characters have more than one name. One of the most widespread female Viking names in Norse culture is Astrid which etymologically comes from As God and Frid beloved.