Dís

thumb|220px|"The Dises" (1909) by Dorothy Hardy thumb|220px|The dying Viking hero Ragnar Lodbrok exclaimed in [[Krákumál: "the dísir invite me home (to Valhalla)". This is an illustration of a woman welcoming Odin back to Valhalla on the Tjängvide image stone, Gotland.]] thumb|220px|"Idise" (1905) by Emil Doepler right|220px|thumb|The dísablót by August Malmström 220px|right|thumb|The annual Disting Fair still carries the name of the dísir. A scene from the Disting of 2008.

In Norse mythology, a dís (Old Norse: , "lady", plural dísir ) is a female deity, ghost, or spirit associated with Fate who can be either benevolent or antagonistic toward mortals. Dísir may act as protective spirits of Norse clans. It is possible that their original function was that of fertility goddesses who were the object of both private and official worship called dísablót, and their veneration may derive from the worship of the spirits of the dead. The dísir, like the valkyries, Norns, and vættir, are always referred collectively in surviving references. The North Germanic dísir and West Germanic Idisi are believed by some scholars to be related due to linguistic and mythological similarities, but the direct evidence of Anglo-Saxon and Continental German mythology is limited. The dísir play roles in Norse texts that resemble those of fylgjur, valkyries, and norns, so that some have suggested that dísir is a broad term including the other beings.