האֵסיר (בנורדית עתיקה: Æsir, ביחיד ás; כתיב חלופי בעברית: אייסיר) הם האלים העיקריים של הפנתאון במיתולוגיה הנורדית. באסיר כלולות רוב הדמויות העיקריות במיתולוגיה זו, כגון אודין, פריג, תור, בלדר וטיר.

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(ש"פ) אייסיר. אחת משתי קבוצות האלים במיתולוגיה הסקנדינבית, המושלת בחייהם של בני האדם. הקבוצה השניה היא וניר, אלים המושלים בתנועות הטבע. האייסיר שוכנים באסגרד, היכלו של האל העליון אודין.

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Noun
1. (Norse mythology) the chief race of gods living at Asgard
(hypernym) Norse deity
(classification) Norse mythology

[Norse] The collective name for the the principal race of Norse gods; they who lived in Asgard, and with the All-Father Odin, ruled the lives of mortal men, the other was the Vanir. The Aesir gods under the leadership of Odin, included Balder (god of beauty), Bragi (god of eloquence), Forseti (god of mediation), Freyr (god of fertility, who originally was from the Vanir), Heimdall (guardian of the bridge), Hod (the blind god), Loki (god of fire and ally of the frost giants), Njord (the sea god, and another ex-Vanir), Thor (god of thunder), Tyr (god of war), Vili (brother to Odin), Ve (brother to Odin), and Vidar (Odin's son). The goddesses included Freya (the fertility goddess), Frigg (Odin's wife), Sif (Thor's wife), and Idun (keeper of the apples of youth). Aesir might be derived from the old-Teutonic word Ase, the common word for "god".

Aesir (Icelandic) [from ass the ridgepole supporting a roof] plural ases; feminine asynja, feminine plural asynjor. Creative gods of the Norse Eddas, inhabiting Asgard (gard, yard or estate), where they retire to feast on the "mead" of experience gained in spheres of life. The twelve deities who build their mansions on various "shelves" of our universe are: Odin Allfather, who occurs on every level of life and is inherent in every living thing; his consort, Frigga; Thor, the power of life and electromagnetism, who corresponds to the Tibetan fohat and in one aspect corresponds to Jove; Balder, the sun god; Njord, the Norse Saturn; Tyr, the Norse Mars; Frey, the deity of planet Earth; Freya, of Venus; Hermod (an aspect of Odin), of Mercury. Heimdall, "the whitest Ase," is the watcher on the rainbow bridge who sounds the gjallarhorn (loud horn) at Ragnarok when a world ends. Brage is poetic inspiration. The most mysterious and lofty ase is Ull, a cold, wintry (unmanifest) world. Paradoxically, "blessed is he who first touches the fire" of that sphere. Forsete is the god of justice who corresponds to the lipikas, agents of karma.

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