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Like other Norse goddesses, her name was applied widely in Scandinavia to, for example, "sweetmeats or to stout carthorses". [81] Vanadís, one of Freyja's names, is the source of the name of the chemical element vanadium, so named because of its many colored compounds. [82]
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.
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.
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.
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, eager", 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 ...
A name for Óðinn, proposed by John McKinnell to have been a name for Freyr due to the description of the Norwegian branch of the Ynglings as 'Þrór's descent' (Old Norse: niðkvísl Þrós) and its use as a heiti for boar in Nafnaþulur (97). [32] Olof Sundqvist supports this idea, noting also that Freyr is described as Þroskr in ...
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
It has also been suggested that the names Freyja and Frigg may stem from a common linguistic source. [3] This theory, however, is rejected by most linguists in the field, who interpret the name Frigg as related to the Proto-Germanic verb *frijōn ('to love') and stemming from a substantivized feminine of the adjective *frijaz ('free'), [4] [5] whereas Freyja is regarded as descending from a ...