Saxo may only be imitating the repeated catch-word "war" of the original.
"Loke" appears as Utgard-Loke, Loke of the skirts of the World, as it were; is treated as a venomous giant bound in agony under a serpent-haunted cavern (no mention is made of "Sigyn" or her pious ministry).
"Hela" seems to be meant by Saxo's Proserpina.
"Nanna" is the daughter of Gewar, and Balder sees her bathing and falls in love with her, as madly as Frey with Gertha in Skirnismal.
"Freya", the mistress of Od, the patroness of Othere the homely, the sister of Frey-Frode, and daughter of Niord-Fridlaf, appears as Gunwara Eric's love and Syritha Ottar's love and the hair-clogged maiden, as Dr.
Rydberg has shown.
The gods can disguise their form, change their shape, are often met in a mist, which shrouds them save from the right person; they appear and disappear at will.

For the rest they have the mental and physical characteristics of the kings and queens they protect or persecute so capriciously.

They can be seen by making a magic sign and looking through a witch's arm held akimbo.

They are no good comates for men or women, and to meddle with a goddess or nymph or giantess was to ensure evil or death for a man.

The god's loves were apparently not always so fatal, though there seems to be some tradition to that effect.