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Eir
- name:
- Eir
- other:
- Eira, Eria, Eyra
- meaning:
- help, mercy
- sex:
- F
- origin:
- Nordic
- domain:
- healing, medicine
- herb:
- eirflower
- animal:
- gray jaybird
- tool:
- mortar and pestle
According to vikingr.org1), 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.