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Medb
Medb is one of the most powerful and controversial figures in Irish mythology. Usually known in English as Maeve, she is the queen of Connacht and a central character in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four major narrative …
Kuu
Kuu is the Finnish word for the Moon and, in discussions of Finnish mythology, may refer either to the celestial body itself or to a personified lunar power. It is sometimes presented in modern summaries as a Finnish moo…
Síbilja
Síbilja is not a securely attested goddess, giantess, valkyrie, or other independent figure in the surviving mythology of medieval Scandinavia. The name appears in some modern lists of “Norse gods and beings”, but those …
Maga
Maga is an obscure name associated with Irish mythological tradition. Unlike figures such as Macha, the Morrígan, Brigid or Medb, Maga does not possess a clearly established biography, mythology or cult in the surviving …
Kyllikki
Kyllikki is a human heroine of the Finnish and Karelian oral-poetry tradition, best known as the wife of Lemminkäinen in the Kalevala. She is not a goddess, spirit or supernatural creature. Her story belongs to the cycle…
Sigurd
Sigurd is one of the greatest heroes of Norse and wider Germanic legend. Known as Sigurðr in Old Norse and as Siegfried in medieval German tradition, he is celebrated for killing the dragon Fáfnir, acquiring a hoard of c…
Manannán Mac Lir
Manannán Mac Lir is one of the most prominent supernatural figures in Irish mythology. His name is commonly translated as “Manannán, son of Lir,” and he is strongly associated with the sea, the Isle of Man, and the other…
Louhi
Louhi is one of the most important supernatural figures in the Kalevala, the nineteenth-century Finnish epic compiled from older oral poetry. She is chiefly portrayed as the powerful mistress of Pohjola, a mysterious nor…
Sif
Sif is a female deity in Norse mythology, best known as the wife of Thor and the owner of remarkable golden hair. She appears only briefly in the surviving medieval sources, but one story gives her an important place in …
Midir
Midir is a supernatural lord of Irish mythology, best known from the medieval tale Tochmarc Étaíne, or The Wooing of Étaín. He belongs to the Tuatha Dé Danann, the divine or Otherworldly people who appear in Irish mythol…
Loviatar
Loviatar is a feared female figure in Finnish mythic poetry, best known as the blind daughter of Tuoni, the ruler of the realm of the dead. In the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic, she is associated with death, corrupti…