“The Course of Empire: the Pastoral or Arcadian State” by Thomas
Cole (1834)  Vanaheim (Old Norse Vanaheimr, “Homeland of the
Vanir“) is one of the Nine Worlds that are situated around the
world-tree Yggdrasil. As the name implies, it’s the home of the
Vanir tribe of deities, who tend to be somewhat more associated
with fertility and what we today would call “nature” than the
other tribe of Norse deities, the Aesir, who have their home in
Asgard.  The surviving sources for our information on Norse
mythology and religion, as fragmentary as they are, don’t
contain any explicit mention of where exactly Vanaheim is
located.[1] The sole clue we have comes from the Lokasenna (“The
Taunting of Loki“), one of the poems in the Poetic Edda, which
states that the Vanir god Njord went eastward when he went to
Asgard as a hostage at the conclusion of the Aesir-Vanir War.[2]
Presumably, then, Vanaheim lies somewhere to the west of Asgard.
Some scholars have gone so far as to claim that Vanaheim was
invented by the thirtee