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High adds that Freyja has a large, beautiful hall called Sessrúmnir, and that when Freyja travels she sits in a chariot and drives two cats, and that Freyja is "the most approachable one for people to pray to, and from her name is derived the honorific title whereby noble ladies are called fruvor [noble ladies]". High adds that Freyja has a ...
Articles relating to the goddess Freyja, a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future). Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers.
Freyja (18 P) Pages in category "Cat goddesses" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The connection with and possible earlier identification of the goddess Freyja with Frigg in the Proto-Germanic period is a matter of scholarly debate (see Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis). [10] Like the name of the group of gods to which Freyja belongs, the Vanir, the name Freyja is not attested outside of Scandinavia.
Both Freyr and Freyja are represented zoomorphically by the pig: Freyr has Gullinbursti ("golden bristles") while Freyja has Hildisvíni has ("battle-pig"), and one of Freyja's many names is Syr, i.e. "sow". For Old Norse, Snorri says that freyja is a tignarnafn (name of honour) derived from the goddess, that grand ladies, rîkiskonur, are freyjur.
Freyja (Old Norse) (See List of names of Freyja for more) "Lady" [24] Freyr, Óðr: Hnoss, Gersemi: Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, Heimskringla, Sörla þáttr: Frigg (Old Norse) Derived from an Indo-European root meaning "Love" [25] (Gives her name to Friday, as the Germanic equivalent of Venus). Odin (consort), Vili, Vé: Baldr, Höðr
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Óðr again leaves the grieving Freyja in Odur verläßt abermals die trauernde Gattin (1882), Carl Emil Doepler 'The Elder'.. In Norse mythology, Óðr (; Old Norse for the "Divine Madness, frantic, furious, vehement, athger", as a noun "mind, feeling" and also "song, poetry"; Orchard (1997) gives "the frenzied one" [1]) or Óð, sometimes anglicized as Odr or Od, is a figure associated with ...