Iðunn

Sources enumerate Iðunn among the ásynjur (goddesses) of the Aesir and present her as Bragi's wife and keeper of restorative apples kept in an eski (an ash-wood box). A late poem (Hrafnagaldr Óðins) contains an otherwise-attested variant tradition identifying her as descended from elves and as a dís and one of "Ivaldi's elder children," indicating layered or variant origin motifs across attestations.

Primary sources and summaries give no sustained physical description; attestations emphasize her role as the keeper of apples and her social place among the goddesses. A late poem links her genealogically to elves and dísir and says she "dwells in dales," but no definite bodily attributes are recorded in the supplied materials.

Iðunn's central power is custodial: she maintains apples in an ash-wood eski that the gods bite to become young again, and the gods' continued youthfulness depends on her care. In narrative sources she is abducted by the jötunn Þjazi after Loki lures her from Asgard; her absence causes the Aesir to age, and Loki later returns her by transforming her into a nut (or nut-like object) for concealment while he flies her back to Asgard.