Forseti’s Family Tree

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Family

• Baldur(parent),Nanna(parent)— Marriage

  Baldur and Nanna were husband and wife. At Baldur's funeral, Nanna's heart burst from grief and she was placed on his pyre beside him. Their son Forseti became the god of justice.

Rules over

• Glitnir

  Forseti presides over Glitnir, his golden-pillared and silver-roofed hall in Asgard, where he settles all disputes brought before him according to Grímnismál stanza 15 and Gylfaginning.

Member of

• Aesir

  The Æsir are the principal tribe of Norse gods who dwell in Asgard, including both native members and Vanir hostages received after the Æsir-Vanir War, as catalogued in Gylfaginning.

Equivalent to

• Fosite(Germanic)

  Fosite and Forseti are the same god of justice and assembly — the Frisian deity whose sacred spring on Fositesland demanded silence from all who drank, and the Norse arbiter who settles every dispute brought before him in his golden hall Glitnir.

  ⚠ The identification rests on name etymology and shared judicial associations. Some scholars consider the evidence insufficient for a direct cognate relationship, as Fosite's mythology is largely unattested beyond Alcuin's brief mention.