Hlín- Norse GodDeity
Domains
Description
Frigg sends her to shield those the queen of the Æsir wishes to keep from harm. When Odin falls before Fenrir at Ragnarök, the Völuspá names Hlín's grief: her second sorrow, after whatever first loss the seeress leaves unnamed.
Mythology & Lore
The Protector and Her Grief
Snorri names Hlín among the Ásynjur in Gylfaginning 35. She is the one Frigg sends to those the queen wishes to guard from danger, and her name comes from the Old Norse hlína, to shelter. No surviving story tells whom she protected or how, only that she went where Frigg directed.
In Völuspá 53, the seeress sees Ragnarök unfold and says that Hlín's second sorrow is at hand when Óðinn goes forth to fight the wolf. The stanza does not explain what her first sorrow was. It names no earlier loss. She appears in the poem only at this moment, grieving beside the end of the world.
Relationships
- Serves