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Aesir |
 | | His sister and wife, Freyia, who holds a high place among the Aesir, is the goddess of love; but her influence, unlike her husbands is not always beneficent, and varies with the form which she assumes is operating on the minds of men. |
 | | Hiemdal, whose attribute is the rainbow, is the god of watchfulness, the doorkeeper of the Aesir; while Vidar, the strongest of the gods after Thor, is the impersonation of silence and caution; Ull decides the issue of single combats, and Forsetti settles all quarrels. |
 | | From this brief outline it may be seen that in their Aesir the Northmen recognized the creators, sustainers, and regulators of the world as it vow is, from whom emanated the thought and life that pervade and animate all nature, and the efforts to subject it to the spiritual will. |
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