Aesir

  

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Aesir

Definition: Aesir

Aesir

Noun

1. (Norse mythology) the chief race of gods living at Asgard.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



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Crosswords: Aesir

English words defined with "Aesir": AsgardFrey, FreyrHoenirJotun, JotunnOdinUll, UllrVali, Vanir, Vidar, Vithar, Vitharr. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Aesir

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Aesir (singular áss) are the principal pantheon of gods in Norse mythology. They include many of the major figures, such as Odin, Frigg, Thor, Balder and Tyr. It should, however, be noted that a second clan of gods, the Vanir, is also mentioned in the Norse mythos; the gods Freyr and Freya are Vanir gods living among the Aesir. The Vanir were mainly connected with fertility, the Aesir with power and wars.

Collectively, all of these godlike beings are known as the Asa. As, Ase and Áss may be used to described a single male member of the Aesir.

The interaction between the Aesir and the Vanir is an interesting aspect of Norse mythology. While other cultures have had "elder" and "younger" families of gods, as with the Titanss versus the Olympianss of ancient Greece, the Aesir and Vanir were portrayed as contemporary. The two clans of gods fought battles, concluded treaties, and exchanged hostages (Frey and Freya are mentioned as such hostages). It is tempting to speculate that the interactions described as occurring between Aesir and Vanir reflect the types of interaction common to various Norse clans at the time. According to another theory, the cult of the Vanir (who are mainly connected with fertility and relatively peaceful) may be of an older date, and that of the more warlike Aesir of later origin, so the mythical war may perhaps mirror a religious conflict.

The chronology of the cults would in that case not be pictured in the myths. On the other hand, only Odin and Thor were important in both myth and cult; an áss like Ull is almost unknown in the myths, but his name is seen in a lot of geographical names, especially in Sweden, so his cult was probably quite wide-spread.

The Aesir stayed forever young by eating the golden appless of Idun. Well, not quite forever - unlike the gods of some other religions, the Aesir and Vanir are not immortal; they will die at Ragnarok, with some very few exceptions.

Aesir and their guests

  1. Andhrimnir
  2. Balder
  3. Bragi
  4. Forseti
  5. Freya, a Vanir hostage
  6. Freyr, a Vanir hostage
  7. Frigg
  8. Heimdall
  9. Hod
  10. Honir
  11. Idun
  12. Loki
  13. Njord
  14. Odin
  15. Sif
  16. Thor
  17. Tyr
  18. Ull
  19. Vali
  20. Ve
  21. Vidar
  22. Vili

See also: Wotan

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aesir."

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Commercial Usage: Aesir

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Books

  • Cloak of Aesir (Classics of Science Fiction) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aesir

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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aesir

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aesir vanir

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Modern Translations: Aesir

Language Translations for "Aesir"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

asen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aesiray

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bogovi predvođeni odinom. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Aesir"

Words rhyming with "Aesir" (pronounced '[AE]"sir'): Grimsir. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Aesir

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: arise, raise, serai.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-s"

-1 letter: airs, ares, arse, ears, eras, ires, rase, reis, rias, rise, sari, sear, sera, sire.

-2 letters: air, ais, are, ars, ear, era, ers, ire, ras, rei, res, ria, sae, sea, sei, ser, sir, sri.

-3 letters: ae, ai, ar, as, er, es, is, re, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-s"
 

+1 letter: aeries, aiders, aimers, airers, airest, aivers, ariels, ariose, arisen, arises, armies, arsine, ashier, aspire, braise, caries, cerias, deairs, easier, ericas, ferias, fraise, irades, kaiser, paries, praise, rabies, raised, raiser, raises, ramies, redias, resaid, resail, sagier, sailer, satire, serail, serais, serial, sierra, spirea, striae, terais, varies, zaires.

 

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+3 letters: abrasive, abridges, acarines, acquires, acridest, admirers, advisers, aerifies, aerobics, affaires, affixers, aginners, agrestic, ailerons, airbuses, aircrews, airdates, airfares, airheads, airholes, airiness, airlines, airscape, airscrew, airsheds, airspace, airspeed, airtimes, airwaves, alieners, alienors, aligners, ambaries, amberies, amirates, amortise, anergias, anergies, aneroids, aneurins, aneurism, angaries, angriest, anserine, antisera, anuresis, aphorise, apiaries, appliers, appraise, apprised, appriser, apprises, apprizes, aquifers, arabizes, araneids, arbiters, archaise, archines, archives, arcsines, arenites, arginase, argosies, argufies, aridness, ariettas, ariettes, aristate, armigers, armoires, armories, arrivers, arsenics, arsenide, arsenite, arteries, articles, artiness, artistes, artsiest, ascribed, ascribes, asperity, aspheric, aspirate, aspirers, assailer, assigner, assister, asterias, asterisk, asterism, asteroid, astringe, ateliers, atomiser, atresias, auguries, auricles, avarices, aversion, aversive, aviaries, avodires, avoiders, awaiters, azurites, bakeries, ballsier, banisher, banister, barflies, barkiest, barmiest, barniest, baronies, barriers, basifier, bawdries, bearings, bearskin, bedrails, bestiary, bilayers, binaries, biramose, birettas, bizarres, blastier, braiders, brailles, brakiest, brandies, brashier, brasiers, brassier, brassies, braziers, breccias, brigades, brisance, caesuric, calibers, calibres, calipers, calories, canaries, canister, caprices, carbides, carbines, carioles, carlines, carmines, carriers, cashiers, casimere, casimire, causerie, caviares, cavilers, ceramics, ceramist, ceratins, cesarian, chariest, charlies, chimeras, cigarets, cisterna, citrates, claimers, classier, claviers, crabwise, crannies, crappies, craziest, creasier, creasing, creatins, cremains, crispate, cristate, curacies, dalliers, darioles, dataries, daubries, deciares, decrials, denarius, deraigns, despairs, detrains, diallers, dialyser, diaspore, diasters, diehards, dilaters, disagree, disarmed, disarmer, disaster, disgrace, dishware, dismaler, dispread, disrated, disrates, drainers, drearies, earliest, earlship, earnings, earrings, eateries, emeritas, emirates, emissary, engrails, engrains, enravish, entrails, entrains, epicarps, epigrams, erasions, ergastic, erratics, espalier, eucharis, exurbias, failures, fainters, fairness, fakeries, fanciers, faradise, farinose, farriers, farsides, filarees, firearms, firebase, firepans, flashier, foresaid, foresail, frailest, freakish, freesias, friaries, frigates, gambiers, ganister, gantries, garigues, garpikes, gasalier, gaselier, gasifier, gasolier, gearings, gesneria, gharries, giraffes, girasole, gisarmes, glaciers, glariest, glassier, glaziers, graciles, gradines, grainers, granites, grannies, grapiest, grassier, graziers, greasier, greasily, greasing, gremials, grimaces, hagrides, hairiest, hairless, hairnets, hardiest, harelips, harmines, harriers, hauliers, hayrides, haywires, hearings, hearsing, hearties, heparins, hetairas, hoariest, hysteria, idocrase, impalers, impearls, impresas, inarches, increase, inearths, inertias, ingrates, inhalers, inlayers, insnared, insnarer, insnares, intreats, invaders, islander, isobares, iterates, japeries, jarosite, jemidars, kaiserin, keramics, keratins, lamister, lanciers, lardiest, larkiest, latrines, lavisher, leariest, lempiras, liberals, librates, literals, madeiras, magister, marchesi, mariners, marishes, marliest, marlines, marlites, marmites, marquise, marrieds, marriers, marshier, matrices, matrixes, measlier, mermaids, meropias, midyears, migrates, minarets, minerals, miracles, misalter, misavers, misframe, misgrade, misheard, mishears, mislayer, mislearn, misparse, misraise, misrated, misrates, misreads, mistaker, mistrace, mistreat, moraines, moralise, muriates, naperies, narceins, nargiles, nearside, nitrates, notaries, organise, outraise, painters, panfries, panniers, pantries, paradise, parasite, parchesi, parecism, pareiras, paretics, parietes, parishes, parities, parodies, parslied, partiers, parvises, pastries, pavisers, pelorias, peracids, periapts, perillas, perisarc, pertains, pharisee, piaffers, piasters, piastres, picrates, pilaster, pinaster, piracies, plaister, plaiters, plashier, polarise, practise, prairies, praisers, pralines, praxises, presidia, prevails, primages, primates, pristane, privates, pyrexias, quarries, queasier, queridas, racemism, rachides, rachises, raciness, radiates, radicels, radicles, radishes, radiuses, ragtimes, raiments, rainiest, rainless, raisable, raisonne, ralliers, ramekins, ramifies, ramilies, rammiest, rampikes, randiest, rangiest, ranpikes, raphides, rapidest, rarebits, rarefies, rarifies, rarities, rashlike, raspiest, ratanies, ratifies, ratlines, rattiest, ravelins, ravished, ravisher, ravishes, rawhides, readiest, readings, readmits, realigns, realised, realiser, realises, realisms, realists, realizes, realties, reassail, 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sirenian, slaggier, slangier, sleazier, slipware, smarmier, smarties, smearier, smearing, snaggier, snappier, snarkier, snarlier, snazzier, sneakier, solarise, solarize, sparerib, sparkier, sparlike, sparrier, spearing, spiracle, spiraeas, spiraled, spirulae, sprained, staggier, stainers, stalkier, starlike, starrier, steadier, steamier, stearine, stearins, sterical, sterigma, strained, strainer, straiten, straiter, strawier, striated, striates, sudaries, sugarier, suricate, suzerain, swampier, swankier, swearing, sweatier, swimwear, sybarite, synergia, tacrines, talliers, tardiest, tarriers, tarriest, tarsiers, taurines, tawdries, teariest, teratism, terrains, tertials, tertians, theriacs, thesauri, tinwares, titrates, toastier, trailers, trainees, trainers, traipsed, traipses, trashier, travoise, treaties, treatise, trenails, tribades, triphase, tristate, tristeza, uneasier, unraised, upraised, upraiser, upraises, uraemias, uralites, uranides, uranites, urbanise, urinates, vagaries, valorise, vampires, vanisher, vaporise, variates, varicose, varioles, vervains, vespiary, vestiary, viatores, vibrates, vinegars, viragoes, virelais, virelays, viremias, virgates, visceral, vitamers, vivaries, votaries, waisters, waitress, wariness, warpwise, wartiest, wartimes, wasterie, wastries, waterish, weariest, wiretaps, wireways, wiseacre, wisteria, yearlies, yeastier.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Aesir


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 65 73 69 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .    ...    ..    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#101 &#115 &#105 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0065 0073 0069 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3571857584

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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