In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and...
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Look up Freyja in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Freyja is a goddess in Norse mythology. Freyja may also refer to: MV Millennial Spirit, a Moldovan...
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ICGV Freyja is an offshore patrol vessel of the Icelandic Coast Guard. The ship is named after Freyja from Norse mythology and is the first Coast Guard...
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The Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis holds that the Old Norse goddesses Frigg and Freyja descend from a common Proto-Germanic figure, as suggested...
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Fólkvangr (category Freyja)
"people-field" or "army-field") 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...
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Seiðr (section Freyja and seiðr)
simultaneously responsible for war, poetry and sorcery, and the goddess Freyja, a member of the Vanir who was believed to have taught the practice to the...
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calls Freyja a malicious witch, and claims that Freyja was once astride her brother Freyr, when all of the other laughing gods surprised her and Freyja then...
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sources. All sources describe the god Njörðr, and his children Freyr and Freyja as members of the Vanir. A euhemerized prose account in Heimskringla adds...
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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)...
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Óðr (category Freyja)
major goddess Freyja. The Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, both describe Óðr as Freyja's husband and father...
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gods such as the thunder-god Thor, the raven-flanked god Odin, the goddess Freyja, and numerous other deities. Most of the surviving mythology centers on...
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Gefjon (section Frigg and Freyja)
potential connections between Gefjon and Grendel's Mother and/or the goddesses Freyja and Frigg. The etymology of theonym Gefjon (and its variant Gefjun) has...
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ultimatum. Thor and Loki go to Freyja. One of the two asks Freyja to put on a bridal head-dress and come with them to Jötunheim. Freyja is so enraged by this request...
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dwelling of the goddess Freyja, and so that he may attempt to find Mjölnir, Thor asks her if he may borrow her feather cloak. Freyja agrees, and says she...
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derived from the name of the Old Norse word for noble lady (Freyja). The theonym of the goddess Freyja is thus considered to have been an epithet in origin,...
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known as Óttar the Simple, is a protégé and human lover of the goddess Freyja. He appeared in Hyndluljóð (the Lay of Hyndla), a poem in the Poetic Edda...
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of forests. Euptera freyja freyja (north-western Zambia) Euptera freyja inexpectata Chovet, 1998 (coast of Cameroon) Euptera freyja ornata Libert, 1998...
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Freyja Haraldsdóttir (born 27 June 1986) is an Icelandic politician and a disability rights activist. She was elected to the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly...
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described as having had the (likewise incestuous) twin children Freyr and Freyja. This shadowy goddess is attested to in the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna,...
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Valkyrie (section Freyja and Fólkvangr)
part seemed to have belonged to Óðinn and the other to Freyja. These examples indicate that Freyja was a war-goddess, and she even appears as a valkyrie...
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UC1 Freya (redirect from UC1 Freyja)
Freya or UC1 Freya (in Danish: Freja) was the first private Danish submarine, and thus first amateur electric sub in Denmark. It was built by Peter Madsen...
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Njǫrðr) is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði...
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Brísingamen (category Freyja)
mythology, Brísingamen (or Brísinga men) is the torc or necklace of the goddess Freyja, of which little else is known for certain. The name is an Old Norse compound...
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Gullveig (category Freyja)
variously proposed that Gullveig/Heiðr is the same figure as the goddess Freyja, that Gullveig's death may have been connected to corruption by way of gold...
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Hnoss (category Freyja)
(Old Norse: [ˈhnosː], "jewel" or "treasure") is one of the daughters of Freyja and Óðr in Norse mythology. The Old Norse term Hnoss has been translated...
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Look up Freia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Freia may refer to: Freyja, a Norse goddess 76 Freia, a main belt asteroid Freia (chocolate), a Norwegian...
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Gambara (seeress) (section Frigg and Freyja)
to give them victory, but Gambara invoked Odin's wife Frea (Frigg and/or Freyja) instead. Frea advised them to trick her husband, by having the Winnili...
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valkyries and of the goddess Gefion who may be an extension of Frigg and Freyja. Freyja, the daughter of the sea god Njörðr, was both a fertility goddess and...
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Gersemi (category Freyja)
daughter of the fertility-goddess Freyja in Norse mythology. She could be the same figure as Hnoss, another daughter of Freyja. The Old Norse name Gersemi means...
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Frigga (sometimes called Freyja) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears in particular...
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