Herja

Herja is the name of a female literary figure from Norse mythology. In the Edda it appears as a roll-call protagonist of the Valkyries.

Snorri Sturluson counts the Herja on in his list of synonyms in the Skáldskaparmál his Prose Edda. This listing is in the context of its didactic concept as a tool for training poetological the skald, so as Þulur ( " word order " ) referred. In Skáldskaparmál 17 Snorri Herja binds a name in Hrungnir myth and recites here Þjóðólfrs shield poem Haustlǫng, in the slipstreams this the name of the Herja in a composition and the figure of Hrungnir hereby marked paraphrases ( Kenning ).

" Vingnis herju heimþinguðr. "

" Visitors to the army of the companion of Vingnir. "

Rudolf Simek compares the name etymologically related to the Old High German herjón with the meaning of ravage or devastate something and forwards the form of Germanic * Harjaza from. He refers further to the epigraphic evidence of the name of the goddess Hariasa from the Germania inferior of the 2nd century.