place
Vanaheim
The home-world of the Vanir in Norse speech. Not Asgard as the Aesir seat, and not a generic fertility-land dump.
Also known as Vanaheimr
Norse tradition
Vanaheim appears in Norse tradition.
Völuspá and Grímnismál neighbors in the Poetic Edda name Vanaheimr among the Vanir home-speech of the worlds. A named Vanir world in that verse corpus, not Asgard as the Aesir seat and not a fertility-land dump.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Freyr appears in Vanaheim.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats Freyr among the Vanir and Vanaheim speech of that cosmography. A named god appearing in the Vanir home-world, not freyr→appears_in→alfheim as the PE light-elf gift seat alone and not Freyja as his sister.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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sources
- Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.