War between vanir and aesir

WAR BETWEEN VANIR AND AESIR

Long ago, the Vanir (gods of nature), had a conflict with the Aesir (gods of war), the origin was the murder of a witch named Gullveig by the Aesir.

This witch was very greedy, and the Aesir hated her, in one of her trips, they decided to kill her and throw her body to a bonfire in the middle of Gladsheim (palace of Odin). By surprise, it resurfaced from its ashes, and the Aesir killed her up to a total of three times and threw her three times into the fire, but she always rose again. After this fact, the Aesir called it Heid, which means "the one that shines". The witch became a goddess of bad magic and used her powers to do evil.

The Vanir learned of what happened and declared war against the Aesir.

The battle lasted a long time, and there was no clear winner, neither side got an advantage, and decided to make a pact to end the war, the pact was to exchange two people from one side for another two of the other, as well for Vili and Mimir went to Vanaheim and Njord and Frey (son of Njord) went to Asgard.

Njord

Frey