====== Eir ======

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name: Eir
other_names: Eira, Eria, Eyra
meaning: help, mercy
sex_tags: F
origin_tags: Nordic
domain_tags: healing, medicine
metal_tags: copper
herb_tags: eirflower
animal_tags: gray jaybird
tool_tags: mortar and pestle
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According to [[https://vikingr.org/norse-gods-goddesses/eir|vikingr.org]](([[https://archive.ph/QBbFi|Webpage archive]])), Eir is a goddess of healing and folk medicine. She is mentioned several times in Nordic poetry as a skilled physician and goddess of healing, who resides on Lyfjaberg, the "hill of healing."

She is said to have used the white eirflower in healing rituals.