Aesir

Or ae·sir

[ey-sir, ey-zir]

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.

Aesir

/ ˈeɪsɪə /

plural noun

1. the chief gods of Norse mythology dwelling in Asgard

Word History and Origins

Origin of Aesir¹

From Old Norse, plural of āss “god”; cognate with Old English ōs “god,” Os- in proper names (as Ōswald ), Old High German Ans- in proper names (as Anselm ); akin to Sanskrit asura “lord”

Word History and Origins

Origin of Aesir¹

Old Norse, literally: gods

Example Sentences

Most of the stories we have, however, concern two gods, Odin and his son Thor, and Odin’s blood brother, a giant’s son called Loki, who lives with the Aesir in Asgard.

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A giant disguised as an eagle steals Idunn’s apples of immortality and the Aesir — as the inhabitants of Valhalla are called — start to age.

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More settlers quickly followed, mostly the Norse who worshipped the Aesir, or gods like Thor and Odin.

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Aesir, which is rolling out models in Cyrillic and Chinese, generated buzz with its glitzy promotion in Moscow last week.

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Advancing from the Black Sea northwards through Russia, and westward through Esthonia, the Aesir seem to have overrun the south lands of Scandinavia, not as a horde but as an immigrant aristocracy.

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