Disir: Elusive Female Guardian Spirits Of Fate And Harbingers Of Death And War

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Some believe the Disir in Norse mythology were malicious, harmful spirits, demons of death, destruction, and war who sought terrible things for the people they watched. 

“The Dises” (1909) by Dorothy Hardy. Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline) (1909). Myths of the Norsemen from the Eddas and Sagas. London: Harrap. This illustration facing page 170. Digitized by the Internet Archive and available from
https://archive.org/details/mythsofthenorsem00gueruoft . Image uploader: Haukurth. – CC BY-SA 4.0

Others suggest that the Norse people also believed in the positive influence of the Disir (Dises) in a person’s life. These goddesses (spirits) make a separate female group in Scandinavian mythology. They are related to fertility and death. 

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