High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Norse mythology, a dis ("lady", plural disir) is a ghost, spirit or deity associated with fate who can be both benevolent and antagonistic towards mortal people. Disir may act as protective spirits of Norse clans. Their original function was possibly that of fertility goddesses who were the object of both private and official worship called disablot, and their veneration may derive from the worship of the spirits of the dead. The disir, like the valkyries, norns, and v?ttir, are almost always referred to collectively. The North Germanic disir and West Germanic Idisi are believed by some scholars to be related due to linguistic and mythological similarities, but the direct evidence of Anglo-Saxon and Continental German mythology is limited. The disir play roles in Norse texts that resemble those of fylgjur, valkyries, and norns, so that some have suggested disir is a broad term including the other beings. Данное издание представляет собой...

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