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Freya is an Old Norse feminine given name derived from the name of the Old Norse word for noble lady . The theonym of the goddess Freyja is thus considered to have been an epithet in origin, replacing a personal name that is now unattested.
Freya (1901) by Anders Zorn. The Heimskringla book Ynglinga saga provides a euhemerized account of the origin of the gods, including Freyja. In chapter 4, Freyja is introduced as a member of the Vanir, the sister of Freyr, and the daughter of Njörðr and his sister (whose name is not provided).
It has also been suggested that the names Freyja and Frigg may stem from a common linguistic source. [3] This theory, however, is rejected by most linguists in the field, who interpret the name Frigg as related to the Proto-Germanic verb *frijōn ('to love') and stemming from a substantivized feminine of the adjective *frijaz ('free'), [4] [5] whereas Freyja is regarded as descending from a ...
A depiction of Freyja. Within Norse paganism, Freyja was the deity primarily associated with seiðr.. In Old Norse, seiðr (sometimes anglicized as seidhr, seidh, seidr, seithr, seith, or seid) was a type of magic which was practised in Norse society during the Late Scandinavian Iron Age.
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The etymology of the first element is uncertain. It has been derived from Old Norse brísingr , a poetic term for "fire" or "amber" mentioned in the anonymous versified word-lists ( þulur ) appended to many manuscripts of the Prose Edda , [ 7 ] making Brísingamen "gleaming torc", "sunny torc", or the like.
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