vanir

== Old Norse == === Etymology === Plural of vanr. Related to Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“accustomed”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). === Proper noun === vanir m pl the principal deities, as a group, of the Norse pantheon that represent chaos, fertility, and cultivation; opponents of the Æsir members of the Swedish royal family whose ancestry is traditionally traced to one of the Vanir deities ==== Coordinate terms ==== alfar jǫtnar æsir