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Regarding a Freyja-Frigg common origin hypothesis, scholar Stephan Grundy comments, "the problem of whether Frigg or Freyja may have been a single goddess originally is a difficult one, made more so by the scantiness of pre-Viking Age references to Germanic goddesses, and the diverse quality of the sources. The best that can be done is to ...
"Freya" (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (Old Norse "field of the host" [1] or "people-field" or "army-field" [2]) is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, whilst the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.
The fylgja is linked with the fate of the individual and can leave the individual after death, or transfer to family members. [3] Hamingja – an entity that comprises the luck of a person. The hamingja could leave the person after their death and be inherited by another, including those outside the family. [4]
Freyja (18 P) G. Greek death goddesses (3 C, 8 P) L. ... Pages in category "Death goddesses" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total.
Personifications of death; Rán, a Norse goddess who oversees those who have drowned; Gefjon, a Norse goddess who oversees those who die as virgins; Freyja, a Norse goddess who oversees a portion of the dead in her afterlife field, Fólkvangr; Odin, a Norse god who oversees a portion of the dead in his afterlife hall, Valhalla
Freyja, goddess of fertility, gold, death, love, beauty, war and magic; Freyr, god of fertility, rain, sunlight, life and summer; Iðunn the goddess of spring who guards the apples that keep the gods eternally young; wife of the god Bragi [4] Jörð, personification of the earth and the mother of Thor
Scholars have variously proposed that Gullveig/Heiðr is the same figure as the goddess Freyja, that Gullveig's death may have been connected to corruption by way of gold among the Æsir, and/or that Gullveig's treatment by the Æsir may have led to the Æsir–Vanir War.
Regarding the Freyja–Frigg common origin hypothesis, scholar Stephan Grundy writes that "the problem of whether Frigg or Freyja may have been a single goddess originally is a difficult one, made more so by the scantiness of pre-Viking Age references to Germanic goddesses, and the diverse quality of the sources. The best that can be done is to ...