Also called Rind, Rinda (Saxo).
Their story
Baldrs draumar says Rindr would bear Váli in the western halls, who would avenge Baldr at one night old. Snorri counts her among the goddesses as Váli's mother. Saxo tells a darker tale of a Ruthenian princess, Rinda, whom Odin won by trickery and force after many refusals, to beget an avenger.
Best times to give to them
- deep winter
- late winter as the frost breaks
What they like being given
- a candle set by a frosted window
- warm spiced juice
How to honour them
- Reflect on endurance through winter and the life hidden in frozen ground.
- Honour her alongside Váli when the first thaw comes.
How they can help you
- endurance
- waiting for the right season
Symbols
- frozen ground
- the western halls
Saxo's story is troubling and euhemerised; the older poems say very little about her.
Sources
- Poetic Edda, Baldrs draumar 11
- Prose Edda, Gylfaginning 36
- Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, Book 3
More Norse goddesses
- Frigg Queen of Asgard, keeper of the hearth
- Sif The golden-haired, wife of Thor
- Freyja The Lady, mistress of seiðr and love
- Iðunn Keeper of the apples of youth
- Hel Keeper of the realm of the dead
- Eir The best of physicians
- Sága Keeper of stories, who drinks with Odin
- Gefjon The giving one, ploughwoman of Zealand