Heimdall
c. 800 CE – 1300 CEattested
Scandinavia
- Norse
Watchman at the rainbow bridge who needs less sleep than a bird and hears grass growing. He holds the horn that will announce the end, and spends the whole of time waiting to blow it.
Known for
- hearing grass grow
- the horn not yet blown
- a life spent on watch
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.