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  2. Freyja - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Cultural depictions of cats - Wikipedia

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    Farmers sought protection for their crops by leaving pans of milk in their fields for Freya's special feline companions, the two grey cats who fought with her and pulled her chariot. [ 6 ] Folklore dating back to as early as 1607 tells that a cat will suffocate a newborn infant by putting its nose to the child's mouth, sucking the breath out of ...

  4. Freya (cat) - Wikipedia

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    Freya (c. April 2009 – 4 August 2022) was a cat who was employed as the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office from 2012 to 2014 as the pet of the chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and his family. In September 2012, Freya shared the role of chief mouser to the Cabinet Office with Larry.

  5. Fólkvangr - Wikipedia

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    "Freya" (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (Old Norse "field of the host" [1] or "people-field" or "army-field" [2]) is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, whilst the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.

  6. Freya (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Freya, or Freyja, is a goddess in Norse mythology. Freya may refer to: ... Freya (cat), owned by George Osborne, British Chancellor of the Exchequer; Freya ...

  7. Jellylorum - Wikipedia

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    Jellylorum is a principal character in the musical Cats.One of the Jellicle cats, she is usually portrayed as a motherly caretaker and is principally a vocalist.The musical is based on the 1939 collection of poems by T. S. Eliot from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and Jellylorum is named after the poet's own cat.

  8. Brísingamen - Wikipedia

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    It is third from the star, and has moons named Freya, Beowulf, and Alberich. The Brisingamen is an item that can be found and equipped in the video game, Castlevania: Lament of Innocence . In the French comics Freaks' Squeele , the character of Valkyrie accesses her costume change ability by touching a decorative torc necklace affixed to her ...

  9. Frigg - Wikipedia

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    The theonyms Frigg (Old Norse), Frīja (Old High German), Frīg (Old English), Frīa (Old Frisian), and Frī are cognates (linguistic siblings from the same origin). [2] [3] [4] They stem from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *Frijjō, which emerged as a substantivized form of the adjective *frijaz ('free') via Holtzmann's law. [4]