Heimdall
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or Heimdalr, was the son of nine mothers and the watchman for the Germanic gods. Originally, he may have been an omniscient sky god. He could hear the sound of grass and wool growing, and see over a hundred miles. He stood upon Bifrost, the three-strand bridge that linked Asgard and Midgard (heaven and earth respectively). There he stood ready to blow his horn Gjall at the onset of Ragnarok, during which he was to be the last to fall in single combat with Loki. Heimdall's name may be related to the concept of a 'world tree', as he was thought to be the supreme watchman perched at its top, above the highest rainbow. He disguised himself as Rig, the mortal who established the three social groups: the nobles, the peasants, and the enslaved. Disguised as Rig, the god visited in turn three houses in Midgard and fathered handsome children for the nobility, sturdy children for the peasants and ill-favoured children for the slaves.