Kvasir
Norse · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Norse poetry has a physical origin and this is it: a person made out of a peace treaty, murdered by two dwarfs for no reason the sources give, and fermented. Every kenning for poetry in the skaldic corpus — Kvasir's blood, the dwarfs' drink, Odin's theft — refers back to this, which makes him the most cited figure in Old Norse verse and one the registry did not hold.
Domains
- wisdom
- poetry
Relations
- killed by: FjalarReference treatment of the dwarves Fjalar and Galar slaying Kvasir on his arrival. (secondary)
- killed by: GalarReference treatment of the two dwarves who killed Kvasir and brewed the mead. (secondary)
Sources
- Kvasir is the being formed from the spittle of the Æsir and Vanir at their truce, the wisest that ever lived, killed by the dwarfs Fjalar and Galar and brewed into the mead of poetry.: Reference treatments of Kvasir, the Æsir-Vanir truce and the mead of poetry. (secondary)