Name: Eir
Gender: Female
Usage: Eir is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Eir are in general originating from Iceland, Norway.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Eir is: The goddess of healing.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Eir is ranked on the 73,740th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Eir has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Eir (peace, clemency, help or mercy) or Eira in English, in Norse mythology, is an Asynjur but also Valkyrie. She is the goddess of healing and health, the euphoric one.
Eira knew the medicinal properties of herbs and was capable of resurrection. Only women could learn the art of healing in Scandinavia. [citation needed] She was good friends with Frigg. She was one of the goddesses guarded on the Lyfjaberg mountain. It can be related to the Vanir by the fact of knowing the healing properties of plants and herbs. [citation needed]
Eira appears in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the thirteenth century from traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the thirteenth century by Snorri Sturluson; and in skaldic poetry, including the inscription runic inscription from Bergen, Norway dated to the 1300s and in some Kenningar. In his Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs, John Lindow notes that Snorri places Eir in third place in Gylfaginning, his catalogue of goddesses among the Asynjur. She is also listed in Fjölsvinnsmál (38) as one of the maidens who care for Menglöd. On the other hand, in the Thulur, she is included as a Valkyrie, but not as a goddess.
Historians have theorized whether all three sources refer to the same figure, and debate whether Eira was originally a goddess of health or a Valkyrie. On the other hand, it is also theorized that Eira is another form of the goddess Frigg and is compared to the Greek deity Hygia.
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