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We decided to use the code name, Eir, pronounced just like "Air", for this open source medical platform project. In Norse mythology, Eir is a goddess and/or valkyrie associated with medical skill. Eir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in skaldic poetry, including a runic inscription from Bergen, Norway from around 1300. Scholars have theorized about whether these three sources refer to the same figure, and debate whether Eir may have been originally a healing goddess and/or a valkyrie. In addition, Eir has been theorized as a form of the goddess Frigg and has been compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia. | We decided to use the code name, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eir Eir], pronounced just like "Air", for this open source medical platform project. In Norse mythology, Eir is a goddess and/or valkyrie associated with medical skill. Eir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in skaldic poetry, including a runic inscription from Bergen, Norway from around 1300. Scholars have theorized about whether these three sources refer to the same figure, and debate whether Eir may have been originally a healing goddess and/or a valkyrie. In addition, Eir has been theorized as a form of the goddess Frigg and has been compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia. | ||
[[File:eir.jpg|center|400px|Menglöð sits with the nine maidens, including Eir, on Lyfjaberg (1893) by Lorenz Frølich.]] | [[File:eir.jpg|center|400px|Menglöð sits with the nine maidens, including Eir, on Lyfjaberg (1893) by Lorenz Frølich.]] | ||