Nanna

The Faithful Wife

Domain: Love, Devotion & Mourning
Alignment: Neutral Good
Element: Light
Relics of Power: Mantle of Mourning

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The People

People

Norse & Germanic peoples

Region

Scandinavia & northern Europe

Period

Viking Age, 8th–11th c.

The gods of Asgard were worshipped by the Norse peoples of Scandinavia and by the Germanic tribes, especially during the Viking Age. Warriors sought to die in battle to reach Odin's Valhalla, and the myths were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas. The cult declined with the region's Christianization around the year 1000.

The Norse celebrated blóts, seasonal sacrifices with feasts of meat and mead, such as the Yule of the winter solstice. The great temple at Uppsala, in Sweden, hosted every nine years one of the largest sacrificial festivals of the Viking world.

The Sacred Scrolls

Nanna is the Norse goddess of love and devotion, wife of the radiant Baldur. A symbol of marital fidelity, her fate is bound to the tragedy of her husband's death. So great was her love that she could not survive the loss of her beloved spouse. As The Faithful Wife, this deity occupies a position of supreme prestige in the nórdicos pantheon. Their domains over Love, Devotion & Mourning reflect ancestral cosmic order maintained across millennia. In classical iconography, they are depicted with an aura of unshakeable majesty and sacred attributes that inspired reverence in emperors and peasants alike. Their influence extended beyond earthly boundaries, governing fates and harmony between the visible and invisible worlds. For ancient devotees, contemplating their essence was to understand the very fundamental forces of nature and human existence.

Sacred Symbols

The faithful heart, the funeral pyre, the mantle and the flower

Divine Lineage

Wife of Baldur; mother of Forseti, the god of justice.

The Legendary Myth

When Baldur was slain by the mistletoe dart, his body was placed on the great funeral ship to be cremated according to the rites.

Legends & Deeds

A celebrated secondary legend preserved in the oral traditions of the nórdicos recounts the journey when Nanna intervened directly in the lives of mortals.

Cult & Worship

Historically, the cult of Nanna occupied a central place in the religious and architectural calendar of antiquity.

Relics of Power

The symbol of her devotion, which led her to follow her beloved Baldur into death itself and the world of the dead.

Did You Know?

When the god Hermod rode to Hel to try to rescue Baldur, Nanna sent gifts to the gods with him, showing that she kept her bonds of affection even in the world of the dead.