Culture

• Old Norse

Bynames

• Heimdallr
• Heimdall (Anglo-Norse)
• Hvítastr-Ása ‘the whitest of the Aesir’

Stories

• Heimdall is the son of nine mothers

Comparisons

• Compare Heimdall to Proteus in his role as the herdsman of Poseidon’s seals
• Compare Heimdall to Dylan
• The ram Aries led Dionysus to water
• Compare Heimdall’s loss of an ear to Odhinn’s loss of an eye
• Mardöll
• PIE *pleu ‘flow’ to PIE *pleus ‘fleece’

Conjectures

• Is Heimdall the incestuous son of Freyja and Freyr?

References

• Georges Dumézil
• William Sayers
• E. O. G. Turville-Petre