Later with the Aesir

Usage examples of freyr.

Although Freyr was high in the sky—for the hunters were within the tropics—it seemed to hang there frozen.

Food was approaching, enough food to feed every single person of every tribe upon whom Freyr and Batalix ever shone, or Wutra smiled.

Only at times of New Year would Batalix and Freyr rise and set together.

The gentlemen stayed here while Freyr sank from the sky, pale Batalix also died, and the brighter sentinel rose again.

He was not allowed to leave the halls, but dwelt in a monastic nocturne, not knowing whether Freyr and Batalix swam separately or together in the sky.

Fainter Batalix was always the faster sentinel, and would soon be setting while Freyr lingered still at zenith.

All unknown to them, Freyr drew nearer to the chilly world: for there was truth buried in the obscure scriptures Yuli rejected, and the sky of ice would in due process of time become a sky of fire.

They called it Nktryhk, and believed it to be the throne of a white wizard who would cast the Sons of Freyr, the hated man-things, out of the world.

They followed the Voral River, travelling day and night, for Freyr shone at night during this period.

He felt himself near to death, and staggered outside to die under Wutra’s sky, into which Freyr was already preparing to ascend, for it was the third quarter.

Then the hours of their setting slipped further apart, until gradually Freyr ruled the sky by day and Batalix the sky by night.

From one generation to the next, no man could positively swear that Freyr grew towards manhood, but so said the legends.

They were still almost six hundred times as distant from Freyr as Earth is from its primary.

Year after year, Laintal Ay’s grandparents had lifted their eyes from their ancient documents to watch the window turn pink, orange, and crimson with sunset, as Freyr or Batalix descended into a bath of fire.

The air-octaves wavered as if in flight from Freyr, yet nevertheless curled about it in some instances.