Norse Battle Sword
Norse Battle Sword
A certain goddess? (Celtic/Norse?)
I am thinking about writing a story featuring a goddess I heard of once who was possibly celtic or norse. She would be seen washing men’s swords (or clothes?) by the river before battle, predicting death. If anybody has any idea who this goddess was, I would appreciate it.
That’s Celtic, the washer-woman is a sort of sidhe or fairy that predicts men’s deaths by washing their bloody uniforms or weapons in rivers the night beforehand. They were known as the bean nighe in Scottish Gaelic, in the Ulster Cycle the goddess of war the Morrigan is seen acting as a bean nighe, but usually these are fairies, sidhe, not goddesses.