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Daughter of Njorth and sister of Frey
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freyja
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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 ...
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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 ...
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.