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In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse the "Lady") is a goddess associated with love, sexuality, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi. Along with her brother Freyr (Old Norse the "Lord"), her father Njörðr, and her mother (Njörðr's sister, unnamed in sources), she is a member of the Vanir. Stemming from Old Norse Freyja, modern forms of the name include Freya, Freija, Frejya, Freyia, Frøya, Frøjya, Freia, and Freja.
Freyja rules over her heavenly afterlife field
Fólkvangr and there receives half of those that die in battle, whereas the other half go to the god
Odin's hall,
Valhalla. Within Fólkvangr is her hall,
Sessrúmnir.
Freyja assists other deities by allowing them to use her feathered
cloak, is invoked in matters of fertility and love, and is frequently
sought after by powerful
jötnar
who wish to make her their wife. Freyja's husband, the god Óðr, is
frequently absent. She cries tears of red gold for him, and searches for
him under assumed names. Freyja has
numerous names, including
Gefn,
Hörn,
Mardöll,
Sýr,
Valfreyja, and
Vanadís.
Freyja is attested in the
Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; in the
Prose Edda and
Heimskringla, both written by
Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century; in several
Sagas of Icelanders; in the short story
Sörla þáttr; in the poetry of
skalds; and into the modern age in
Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for
Friday in many Germanic languages.
Scholars have theorized about whether Freyja and the goddess
Frigg ultimately stem from a single goddess common among the
Germanic peoples highly based on the fact that the name for Frigg in Germany is spelled Freija; about her connection to the
valkyries, female battlefield choosers of the slain; and her relation to other goddesses and figures in
Germanic mythology, including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn
Gullveig/Heiðr, the goddesses
Gefjon,
Skaði,
Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa,
Menglöð, and the 1st century CE
"Isis" of the Suebi. Freyja's name appears in numerous place names in Scandinavia, with a high concentration in southern
Sweden. Various plants in Scandinavia once bore her name, but it was replaced with the name of the
Virgin Mary during the process of
Christianization.
Rural Scandinavians continued to acknowledge Freyja as a supernatural
figure into the 19th century, and Freyja has inspired various works of
art.
