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Forseti
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thumb|upright|Forseti, 1680thumb|Forseti Seated in Judgment (1881) by Carl Emil Doepler

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Name
  • Old Norse ''Forseti''
  • Glitnir
  • Frisian ''Fosite''
  • Reception
  • In modern culture
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|upright|Forseti, 1680thumb|Forseti Seated in Judgment (1881) by Carl Emil Doepler

Forseti (Old Norse "the presiding one", "president" in modern Icelandic and Faroese) is the god of justice and reconciliation in Norse mythology. He is generally identified with Fosite, a god of the Frisians.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forseti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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