Crossword clues for freya
freya
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goddess of sexual love and beauty in Norse mythology, from Old Norse Freyja, which is related to Old English frea "lord;" Old Saxon frua, Middle Dutch vrouwe "woman, wife," German Frau; see frau).Frigga is usually considered the goddess of married love; Freya, the goddess of love, the northern Venus. Actually, Frigga is of the Aesir family of Scandinavian myth; Freya, of the Vanir family; the two lines of belief merged, and the two goddesses are sometimes fused, and sometimes confused.
[Joseph T. Shipley, "The Origins of English Words," 1984]
Wikipedia
Freya is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). All except one species occur in Central and South America. F. dyali is only found in Pakistan; it is very likely that this results from taxonomic error. This distribution artifact is very similar to that of the genus Jollas, where also one species is found in Pakistan, and all others in Central to South America.
Freya is an Old Norse feminine given name derived from the name of the Old Norse goddess Freyja.
Freya was the 25th most popular name for baby girls born in England and Wales and was the 32nd most popular name for baby girls born in Scotland in 2007. Freya was the 220th most popular name for girls born in Germany in 2007. Variant Freja was the most popular name for baby girls born in Denmark in 2009 and was the 52nd most popular name in Sweden in 2009 for baby girls.
Notable people with the name include:
- Freya Aswynn, Dutch neopagan
- Freya Bardell, American designer
- Freya Van den Bossche, Belgian politician
- Freya Clausen, Danish singer known also by the mononym Freya
- Freya Lim, Taiwanese singer
- Freya Hoffmeister, German sea kayaker
- Freya Mathews, Australian philosopher and author
- Freya von Moltke, German anti-Nazi resistance group member
- Freya North, English novelist
- Freya Piryns, Belgian politician
- Freya Stark, English travel writer
- Freya Mavor, Scottish actress
- Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
Freya ( c. April 2009) is a tabby cat owned by the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom George Osborne and his family. She went missing from the Osbornes' house in Notting Hill when she was just a few months old and after searching West London for her, the family assumed she had died or had become lost. In June 2012, Osborne's wife received a call telling her that Freya was alive and the family brought her home. In September 2012, it was reported that Freya had replaced Larry as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office although a Daily Mail reporter stated that they would share the position. As of November 2014, Freya has retired from the position to the Kent countryside.
Freya is a fictional Asgardian appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character, based on the Norse deity of the same name.
Within the context of the stories, Freya is the Asgardian goddess of fertility. She appears as a supporting character of Thor.
"Freya" is a song by American heavy metal band The Sword. Written by the band and produced by vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise, it is featured on the band's 2006 debut studio album Age of Winters. In addition to being released as the only single from the album on September 4, 2007, "Freya" was featured as a playable track on the video game Guitar Hero II, released in November 2006.
Due in part to its inclusion on Guitar Hero II, as well as its release as the lead single from Age of Winters, "Freya" is often cited as The Sword's signature song. It has been performed at almost every one of the band's shows, and was praised by critics upon its release. The song was later included on the 2009 Guitar Hero expansion Smash Hits, and also on the band's iTunes Festival: London 2010 EP.
Usage examples of "freya".
As I faced the Jotuns, I glimpsed Freya staring in wonder from me to the charging barbarians.
Heimdall, remember, whose keen eyes saw Freya and the Jotuns and warned us.
Those Jotuns who attacked me and Freya seemed intent on killing or capturing me.
As I fought to rally my senses, I glimpsed the disguised Jotuns dragging Freya, struggling like a wildcat, toward the cliff.
And I, Keith Masters, with Thor, Frey and Freya of the old Aesir, was riding across it into Asgard, the mythical city of the gods!
Lupov, Freya whispered ashenly, "So the transformation is arranged by means of your techniques and all of those damned gadgets you use to keep people thinking along the exact lines you want.
Following the psychic current to its source, he found Freya Baldursson in the Mound of Venus, resplendent in her superhero garb of black spandex bodysuit and rune-embroidered baseball cap, the contrast merely emphasizing her dazzling, almost inhuman blondness, a look calculated to tickle the eye of either gender.
In chinagraph pencil the coastguardsman had marked the Freya at her overnight position.
Dyne had not yet stirred, much of his audience, grown quite bored with his wooden impersonation, his rubber member, were already deep in the wholesome embrace of one another, naked duos, trios, quartets even, in all combos, distributed across the sloping lawn, heavily engaged in (insert favorite sexual practice), versatile Freya striding anxiously amid the fun, directing Perry's laggard camera from one novel clinch to the next, herself pursued by the twinge of melancholy (none must ever know) such a feast sometimes raised in her, the spectacle of the multitudes screwing too near to the god's-eye view of the multitudes dying.
At such moments she was relentless, she was temperamental, she wasn't taking calls, outside communications were filtered through the only two individuals who could or would dare to speak to her during production: her personal assistant, Elsie, a smaller, compacter, darker version of Freya who seemed instinctively to dislike everybody, and Rags, her husband, a spectral presence in leather pants and stainless steel glasses ("Nazi goggles," Freya called them), his large bony nose the subject of the usual jokes, the odious peat-bog aroma of his ever-present black cigarette enhancing the general aura of disquieting omniscience with which he distanced fans and followers.
He actually, at this late moment, when Freya had already been teleported across to Whale's Mouth, felt his autonomic nervous system secrete its hormones of cringing panic.
Because, higher than the autonomic nervous system, was the frontal lobe's awareness that the moment Freya crossed over, it was decided.
A British dry-cargo vessel had been preparing to en-ter the Maas Estuary for Rotterdam when the 0900 call was made from the Freya to Maas Control.
Odin and Freya maintained their godships in Gaul and Germany and among the Hyperboreans.
The consortium that had put together the $170-million hull insurance on the Freya had to be big.