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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freya \Frey"a\ (fr[imac]"[.a]), prop. n. [Icel. Freyja.] (Scand. Myth.) The daughter of Nj["o]rd, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct. [Written also Frea, Freyia, and Freyja.]
Wikipedia
In Norse mythology, Freyja (; Old Norse for "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, keeps the boar Hildisvíni by her side, 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, Fröja, Frøya, Frøjya, Freia, Freja, Frua and Freiya.
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, the two latter 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; 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.
The name of the Norse goddess Freyja and its modern variants, including Freya, Freia, and Freja can refer to:
Usage examples of "freyja".
But when Freyja herself entered, blonde, pretty, and hysterical, the spell holding Karen for a moment thinned.
Walter had once pointed out that in the Eddas, when Loki proposed a similar bargain to get Thor’s hammer back from the giants, Freyja had rocked Valhalla with her rage.
The following scene, in which the gods, with the help of some blue lighting, dwindled and aged because Freyja had been taken from them, suggested an answer.
It was not just sex then or even love that Freyja ruled, but some basic vitality for which the gods with all their powers relied on her.
At any rate, Freyja was one of the hostages sent by the Vanir to seal the alliance, and she soon became Odin’s mistress and instructor in witchcraft as well.
But the only thing that interested the dwarves was Freyja herself, and the only price they would accept was a night each in her bed.
We know more about Freyja than about any of the other goddesses, but that’s little enough.
It may be good for the power of Freyja to act upon this sick world of ours, but the Aesir were not peaceful gods, and Freyja was a major factor in their wars.
She flung wide her arms as Freyja had burst her chains in Odin’s fire, and the men who held her reeled backward.
If Freyja is real for you, then She’s real, and if She’s made you what you are to me then I’m grateful to Her, too.
She wondered if the boar on the helmet was meant to represent Hildisvini—“Battle-boar,” the favorite mount of Freyja when she was not using her cat-drawn chariot, or perhaps her brother Freyr’s boar Gullinbursti, whom the dwarves had fashioned of gold that lit the air around him, a mount that could outrun any equine steed.
Could Freyja manifest Herself just long enough to make him understand?
In her body there were muscles that still throbbed painfully, and places in her mind that were more painful still, but her vision of Freyja had seared the worst of the darkness away.
She blushed, remembering the circumstances in which Freyja had appeared to each of the men in the room.
Karen has manifested the goddess Freyja, but only when she was wearing Brisingamen.