Blond as Baldur of the Voluspa, with a wealth of golden brown beard veiling his lips and chin, he appeared far more than six years the junior of the clear cut, smoothly shaven face that belonged to his prospective brother-in-law; and their countenances contrasted as vividly as the portraiture of bland phlegmatic Norse aesir, with some bronze image of Mercury, as keenly alert as his sacred symbolic cocks.
"At the Mercy of Tiberius"
August Evans Wilson
Odin became the father of the kind and fair aesir, the gods who rule heaven and earth.
"Norwegian Life"
Ethlyn T. Clough
When my fathers swore to be Odin's men, and gave up the kingdom to the holy Annals, the sons of the aesir, what was the bond between your fathers and mine?
"Hypatia or, New Foes with an Old Face"
Charles Kingsley