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Æsir and then
The sons of Bor then constructed Asgard ( to be identified with Troy, Snorri insists in section 9 ) as a home for the Æsir, who were divinities.
The Æsir said Fenrir would quickly tear apart a thin silken strip, noting that Fenrir earlier broke great iron binds, and added that if Fenrir wasn't able to break slender Gleipnir then Fenrir is nothing for the gods to fear, and as a result would be freed.
:" If all things in the world, alive or dead, weep for him, then he will be allowed to return to the Æsir.
Víðarr does so, and then Loki toasts the Æsir before beginning his flyting.
After this, " the ash Yggdrasil will shake and nothing will be unafraid in heaven or on earth ", and then the Æsir and Einherjar will don their war gear and advance to the field of Vígríðr.
The Æsir then established order in the cosmos by finding places for the sun, the moon and the stars, thereby starting the cycle of day and night.
The Æsir then created the dwarves, of whom Mótsognir and Durinn are the mightiest.
Baldr then gives Hermóðr various gifts from Nanna and himself to bring from Hel to the living Æsir.
First it tells about the Æsir and Ymir, then comes the poetic diction section with the poetic names of many things and lastly a poem called the List of Meters which Snorri composed about King Hakon and Duke Skuli.
After the god Heimdallr awakens all the gods by blowing his horn Gjallarhorn, they will assemble at a thing, Odin will ride to the well Mímisbrunnr and consult Mímir on behalf of himself and his people, the world tree Yggdrasil will shake, and then the Æsir and the einherjar will don their war gear.

Æsir and sent
Then the runes are shaved off and the shavings are mixed with mead and sent abroad so that Æsir have some, Elves have some, Vanir have some, and Men have some, these being beech runes and birth runes, ale runes, and magic runes.
The Æsir started to fear that they would not be able to bind Fenrir, and so Odin sent Freyr's messenger Skírnir down into the land of Svartálfaheimr to " some dwarfs " and had them make a fetter called Gleipnir.
The Æsir went out on to the lake Amsvartnir sent for Fenrir to accompany them, and continued to the island Lyngvi ( Old Norse " a place overgrown with heather ").
Njörðr responds that this was his reward when he was sent as a hostage to the Æsir, and that he fathered his son ( Freyr ), whom no one hates, and is considered a prince of the Æsir.
High says that during the Æsir – Vanir War, the Vanir sent Njörðr as a hostage to the Æsir, and the Æsir sent to the Vanir the god Hœnir.
The Vanir sent Njörðr and Freyr to the Æsir, and in turn the Æsir sent to the Vanir Hœnir and Kvasir.
" The Vanir suspected that they had been cheated by the Æsir in the hostage exchange, and so grabbed hold of Mímir, cut off Mímir's head, and sent it to the Æsir.
" Subsequently, the Vanir suspected they had been cheated in the exchange by the Æsir, so they seized Mimir and beheaded him and sent the head to Asgard.
So the Æsir sent messengers all over the word, and all wept for him, but:

Æsir and forth
In both sources, Surtr is foretold as being a major figure during the events of Ragnarök ; carrying his bright sword, he will go to battle against the Æsir, he will do battle with the major god Freyr, and afterward the flames that he brings forth will engulf the Earth.

Æsir and all
Correspondingly, the Æsir excelled beyond all other people in strength, beauty and talent.
Afterwards, the earth rises again from the sea, is fairer than before, and where Asgard used to be a remnant of the Æsir gather, some coming up from Hel, and talk and play chess all day with the golden chessmen of the ancient Æsir, which they find in the grass ( Section 58 ).
Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir ’ s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck.
With this statement, all of the Æsir look to one another, finding themselves in a dilemma.
After the gods gathered their wits from the immense shock and grief of Baldr's death, Frigg asked the Æsir who amongst them wished " to gain all of her love and favor " by riding the road to Hel.
The Gylfaginning tells the story of Gylfi, a king of " the land that men now call Sweden ", who after being tricked by one of the goddesses of the Æsir, wonders if all Æsir use magic and tricks for their will to be done.
The goddess Frigg asks who among the Æsir will earn " all her love and favour " by riding to Hel, the location, to try to find Baldr, and offer Hel herself a ransom.
Freyja, indignant and angry, goes into a rage, causing all of the halls of the Æsir to tremble in her anger, and her necklace, the famed Brísingamen, falls from her.
While Odin states that Vafþrúðnir knows all the fates of the gods, Odin asks Vafþrúðnir " from where Njörðr came to the sons of the Æsir ," that Njörðr rules over quite a lot of temples and hörgrs ( a type of Germanic altar ), and further adds that Njörðr was not raised among the Æsir.
Georges Dumézil theorized that in the tale Hadingus passes through all three functions of his trifunctional hypothesis, before ending as an Odinic hero, paralleling Njörðr's passing from the Vanir to the Æsir in the Æsir-Vanir War.
Then the Æsir became aware that Rán had that net wherein she was wont to catch all men who go upon the sea.
The names of the first three Æsir in Norse mythology, Vili, Vé and Odin all refer to spiritual or mental state, vili to conscious will or desire,to the sacred or numinous and óðr to the mantic or ecstatic.
The Vanir are only attested in these Old Norse sources, unlike the Æsir, who are attested widely among all tribes of the Germanic peoples.
After the gods gathered their wits from the immense shock and grief of Baldr's death, Frigg asked the Æsir who amongst them wished " to gain all of her love and favor " by riding the road to Hel.

Æsir and have
Troy cannot have been Asagarth, Snorri realizes, the reason being that the Æsir in Asaland were unsettled by the military activities of the Romans ; that is, of the Byzantine Empire.
He notes that the Elder Edda couples the Æsir and the álfar, a conjunction that recurs in Old English ês and ylfe, clearly grouping the elves as a divine or supernatural class of beings, sometimes extended by the Vanir as a third class: The Hrafnagaldr states Alföðr orkar, álfar skilja, vanir vita " The Allfather Odin | the áss has power, the álfar have skill, and vanir knowledge ".
The next morning, Hermóðr begs Hel to allow Baldr to ride home with him, and tells her about the great weeping the Æsir have done upon Baldr's death.
Philologists and historians reject these parallels as mere coincidences, and also anachronisms, for instance the city of Azov did not have that name until over 1000 years after Heyerdahl claims the Æsir dwellt there.
While other cultures have had " elder " and " younger " families of gods, as with the Titans versus the Olympians of ancient Greece, the Æsir and Vanir were portrayed as contemporaries.
The Vanir appear to have mainly been connected with cultivation and fertility and the Æsir were connected with power and war.
Given the difference between their roles and emphases, some scholars have speculated that the interactions between the Æsir and the Vanir reflect the types of interaction that were occurring between social classes ( or clans ) within Norse society at the time.
The common Germanic name of the rune may thus have either been ansuz " God, one of the Æsir ", or ahsam " ear ( of corn )"
Scholars have variously proposed that Gullveig / Heiðr is the same figure as the goddess Freyja, that Gullveig's death may have been connected to corruption by way of gold among the Æsir, and / or that Gullveig's treatment by the Æsir may have led to the Æsir-Vanir War.
The Æsir realize that the last time that Iðunn was seen was when she was going outside of Asgard with Loki, and so they have Loki arrested and brought to the thing.
Although some jötnar are said to have been of considerable size, many were of no difference in size than that of the Æsir or Vanir.
The excavations performed in Tanais, near the entry of the Don into the Black Sea, have shown that Tanais actually did have a population at the time of the supposed emigration of the Æsir ( sometime around 60 B. C., according to Heyerdahl's interpretation of the references to Roman expansion into the Caucasus ).
Azov is believed by Heyerdahl to have derived its name from as-hof-temple of the Æsir.
Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson proposes that a cult of the Vanir may have influenced a cult of the Æsir in the waning days of Norse paganism during the Christianization of Scandinavia, potentially resulting in the figure of Óðr in Norse mythology, which she refers to as a " strange double of Odin ".

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