Norse God Name Generator

The Norse gods come to us through a handful of medieval Icelandic sources: the anonymous Poetic Edda, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda (c. 1220), and the skaldic poems Snorri quotes. Between them they name two divine families, the Æsir of Asgard (Odin, Thor, Frigg, Týr, Baldr) and the Vanir of Vanaheim (Njörðr, Freyr, Freyja), plus the jötnar or giants who are their enemies, lovers, and ancestors, and a crowd of primordial beings such as Ymir the first giant and Auðumbla the cow who licked the gods' grandfather out of the ice.

A distinctive feature of Norse naming is the byname. Odin alone has well over a hundred: Grímnir (masked one), Gangleri (wanderer), Hangatýr (god of the hanged), Bölverkr (evil-doer), Alfaðir (all-father). Thor is Ása-Þórr, Hlórriði, and Vingþórr; Freyja is Vanadís, Mardöll, and Gefn. Skalds used these heiti to fit a god's name into a poetic line, and they are a rich source of names for a story that needs a disguised god or a title for a temple. Old Norse names also stack meaningful elements: -týr (god), -föðr (father), -dís (goddess), Sig- (victory), Val- (the slain).

This list keeps the standard normalized Old Norse spellings with ð, þ, and ö where possible, since a name like Njörðr or Þrúðr instantly signals the source; anglicized forms (Njord, Thrud) are fine for casual use.