Including: Ström, Folke (1954) Diser, nornor, valkyrjor: Fruktberhetskult och sakralt kungadöme i Norden; Näsström, Britt-Mari (1995) Freyja: The Great Goddess of the North; and Hall, Alaric (2004) The Meanings of Elf, and Elves, in Medieval England.
Chapter 77; Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway, tr. Lee M. Hollander, p. 315.
Chapter 29; Hollander, p. 33 translates dísarsálr "the hall of the goddess". See also Lindow, p. 94, de Vries, p. 456 (German) suggests a ritual killing.
The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise, tr. Christpher Tolkien, London: Nelson, 1960, OCLC 503375723, p. 26: "hanged herself in the hall of the dís".
August Fick, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Indogermanischen Sprachen Part 3 Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit, 4th ed. rev. Alf Torp, Hjalmar Falk, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1909, OCLC 491891019, "dîsî, dîsi," p. 206Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine.
Hygg við hjálmum | hingat komnar | til Danmerkr | dísir várar. . . . at Netútgáfan in modernised spelling, ch. 15; "Dead must be | All your dísir; | Luck is gone, I say, | from Hálfr's warriors", translation in Hilda Roderick Ellis [Davidson], The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1943, repr. New York: Greenwood, 1968, OCLC 442899, p. 134.
Else Mundal, "The Position of the Individual Gods and Goddesses in Various Types of Sources— With Special Reference to the Female Divinities," (1990) Bergen Open Research Archive, pp. 310–11 (; PDF).
August Fick, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Indogermanischen Sprachen Part 3 Wortschatz der Germanischen Spracheinheit, 4th ed. rev. Alf Torp, Hjalmar Falk, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1909, OCLC 491891019, "dîsî, dîsi," p. 206Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine.