Aesir And Vanir In Mythology And History

In Poul Anderson's War Of The Gods, the Aesir (gods of sky, wind, weather, sun, moon, stars, the Winterway across heaven and the Northern Lights) and the Vanir, living to the west (gods of earth, sea, harvest, fishery, plow, ship, love, birth, the dark and lawless) make war, then peace.

In Anderson's The Corridors Of Time:

invaders from the east, "...whose patron gods were in the sky...," (CHAPTER SEVEN, p. 59) dislike the forest;

the invaders have "...a clean faith in sun, wind, rain, fire. The darker elements of Nordic paganism would enter later from the old earth cults." (CHAPTER EIGHT, p. 70);

A time traveling Warden persuades the invaders:

"'Sun and Moon, Fire and Water, Air and Earth - why should they not wed, and be worshipped alike?'" (CHAPTER EIGHTEEN, p. 161)

"'...She, Sister to the Sun, walks among us.'" (ibid.)

Further, the Goddess was not:

"...the enemy of Sun and Fire; rather, She was Mother, Wife, and Daughter to the male gods. The Powers desired Their children to be united as They Themselves were." (CHAPTER NINETEEN, p. 169)

Anderson's Time Patrol story, "Star Of The Sea," presents mythological and historical accounts in different sections of a single text.