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Definition of Forseti
1. Noun. (Norse mythology) god of justice; son of Balder and Nanna.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forseti
Literary usage of Forseti
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Myths of Northern Lands: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Hélène Adeline Guerber (1895)
"There forseti dwells Throughout all time, And every strife allays. ... Here, upon
an exalted throne, forseti, the lawgiver, sat day after day, settling the ..."
2. Asgard and the Gods: The Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors by Wilhelm Wägner, M. W. Macdowall, W. S. W. Anson (1917)
"According to the northern myth, forseti was the son of Baldur and Nanna; for
righteousness, whose representative forseti was, proceeds from clearness of ..."
3. Asgard and the gods, tales and traditions of our Northern ancestors, adapted by Maria Wilhelmina Macdowall (1884)
"According to the northern myth, forseti was the son of ... whose representative
forseti was, proceeds from clearness of judgment and immaculate purity. ..."
4. Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1882)
"forseti gen. Forseta, Fris. ... In ON. forseti is praeses, princeps, apparently
translatable into OHG. ..."
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