Jomala
God of the Bjarmaland people whose idol stood within a fenced enclosure, attested in the Heimskringla.
Jomala is the god of the Bjarmaland people, attested in the Heimskringla. The idol of Jomala stood within a fenced enclosure, and the text records a warning that no one should be so presumptuous as to rob him (Heimskringla, 143. The Expedition to Bjarmaland).
Heimskringla
The Heimskringla provides a single citation for Jomala, situating the deity within the account of the Norse expedition to Bjarmaland. The passage presents the god as a local divinity whose idol was physically present and protected within an enclosure, and the warning against robbing the idol suggests that the Norse visitors encountered both the object and the taboo surrounding it (Heimskringla, 143. The Expedition to Bjarmaland).
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Heimskringla, Norse Tradition