Aesir

Kvasir shouted at the Aesir, ordering them to form into two groups, one on one end of the net, one on the other.

A giant disguised as an eagle steals Idunn’s apples of immortality and the Aesir — as the inhabitants of Valhalla are called — start to age.

More settlers quickly followed, mostly the Norse who worshipped the Aesir, or gods like Thor and Odin.

Aesir, which is rolling out models in Cyrillic and Chinese, generated buzz with its glitzy promotion in Moscow last week.

Advancing from the Black Sea northwards through Russia, and westward through Esthonia, the Aesir seem to have overrun the south lands of Scandinavia, not as a horde but as an immigrant aristocracy.