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"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.
Freyja was the daughter of Njörðr, and was Odin's concubine. Odin deeply loved Freyja, and she was "the fairest of woman of that day". Freyja had a beautiful bower, and when the door was shut no one could enter without Freyja's permission. [53] Chapter 1 records that one day Freyja passed by an open stone where dwarfs lived. Four dwarfs were ...
In Norse mythology, Sessrúmnir (Old Norse "seat-room" [1] or "seat-roomer" [2]) is both the goddess Freyja's hall located in Fólkvangr, a field where Freyja receives half of those who die in battle (Odin takes the other half to Valhalla), and also the name of a ship.
Detail from the Stora Hammars I stone, an image stone on Gotland Detail from the Smiss (I) stone, an image stone on Gotland. Sörla þáttr eða Heðins saga ok Högna is a short narrative from the extended version Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta [1] found in the Flateyjarbók manuscript, [2] which was written and compiled by two Christian priests, Jon Thordson and Magnus Thorhalson, [3] in ...
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Freyja was priestess at the sacrifices, and "it was she who first taught the Æsir magic as was practiced among the Vanir". [18] In chapter 15, the king Sveigðir is recorded as having married a woman named Vana in "Vanaland", located in Sweden. The two produced a child, who they named Vanlandi (Old Norse "Man from the Land of the Vanir". [19] [20]
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Both Freyr and Freyja are represented zoomorphically by the pig: Freyr has Gullinbursti ("golden bristles") while Freyja has Hildisvíni has ("battle-pig"), and one of Freyja's many names is Syr, i.e. "sow". For Old Norse, Snorri says that freyja is a tignarnafn (name of honour) derived from the goddess, that grand ladies, rîkiskonur, are freyjur.