Definition of Forseti

1. Noun. (Norse mythology) god of justice; son of Balder and Nanna.

Category relationships: Norse Mythology
Generic synonyms: Norse Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forseti

Formica rufa
Formica sanguinea
Formicariidae
Formicarius
Formicidae
Formosa
Formosan
Formosans
Formula 1
Formula One
Fornax
Fornicalia
Forrest
Forrest Gump
Forro
Forseti
Forssman antibody
Forssman antigen
Forssman antigen-antibody reaction
Forssman hapten
Forssman reaction
Forster
Forster's uveitis
Forsyte
Forsythe
Fort-Lamy
Fort Bragg fever
Fort George G. Meade
Fort George Gordon Meade
Fort Knox

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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