07 Oct 2022 Happy Freja'sday, Shining Souls ~ Freyja, (old Norse: “lady”), Most Renowned Of The Nors

Happy Freja'sDay, Shining Souls ~ 07 Oct 2022


Freyja, (Old Norse: “Lady”),
most renowned of the Norse goddesses,
who was the sister and female counterpart of Freyr
and was in charge of love, fertility, battle, and death.

Her father was Njörd, the sea god.

Pigs were sacred to her, and she rode a boar with golden bristles.

A chariot drawn by cats was another of her vehicles.

It was Freyja’s privilege to choose one-half of the heroes slain
in battle for her great hall in the Fólkvangar
(the god Odin took the other half to Valhalla).

She possessed a famous necklace called Brísinga men,
which the trickster god Loki stole and Heimdall,
the gods’ watchman, recovered.

Greedy and lascivious, Freyja was also credited with the evil act
of teaching witchcraft to the Aesir (a tribe of gods).

Like the Egyptian goddess Isis and the Greek Aphrodite,
Freyja traveled through the world seeking a lost husband
and weeping tears of gold.

She was also known by four nicknames
—Mardöll, Hörn, Gefn, and Syr.

 

She was also known by four nicknames—Mardöll, Hörn, Gefn, and Syr.

 

Freyja aka —Mardöll, Hörn, Gefn, and Syr was a Norse Goddess of love, fertility, battle, and death.
She rides in chariot drawn by norwegian forest cats, or, rides a boar with golden bristles.
Artist: Susan Lynne Schwenger


Freyja aka —Mardöll, Hörn, Gefn, and Syr was a Norse Goddess of love, fertility, battle, and death.
She rides in chariot drawn by norwegian forest cats, or, rides a boar with golden bristles.
Artist: Susan Lynne Schwenger


Freyja aka —Mardöll, Hörn, Gefn, and Syr was a Norse Goddess of love, fertility, battle, and death.
She rides in chariot drawn by norwegian forest cats, or, rides a boar with golden bristles.
Artist: Susan Lynne Schwenger