The god Ullr...let us jump back in time!

Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (1845-1921)

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Ullr - or Ull - was one of the Nordic gods - it seems he was more known in Norway, Sweden and Iceland than in Denmark. Ullr was a son of Sif and a (step)son of Thor (although it says 'Odin' in the images below). In Skáldskaparmál, the second part of the Prose Edda, Snorri mentions that Ullr can be called ski-god, bow-god, hunting-god, and shield-god. Scholars have theorized a potential connection between Skaði and the god Ullr.

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Ullr. From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland.

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An illustration of the god Ullr, from an Icelandic manuscript, 1760. The runes read: 'Ull, Odin's son, with his bow, runs here on skis'.

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