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Freyja lends Loki her falcon cloak to search for it; but upon returning, Loki tells Freyja that Þrymr has hidden the hammer and demanded to marry her in return. Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir ’s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck.
In Scandinavia, Freyja's name frequently appears in the names of plants, especially in southern Sweden. Various plants in Scandinavia once bore her name, but it was replaced with the name of the Virgin Mary during the process of Christianization. Rural Scandinavians continued to acknowledge Freyja as a supernatural figure into the 19th century ...
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 ...
The two return to Freyja, and tell her to dress herself in a bridal head dress, as they will drive her to Jötunheimr. Freyja, indignant and angry, goes into a rage, causing all of the halls of the Æsir to tremble in her anger, and her necklace, the famed Brísingamen, [a] flies off of her. [b] Freyja flatly refuses, saying that if she did ...
"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: "Mad art thou, Loki! in recounting thy foul misdeeds. Frigg, I believe, knows all that happens, although she says it not." Loki: "Be thou silent, Freyja! I know thee full well; thou art not free from vices: of the Æsir and the Alfar, that are herein, each has been thy paramour." Freyja: "False is thy tongue. Henceforth it will, I think,
Through Loki, Þrymr conveys his demand for the goddess Freyja's hand in marriage as the price for returning Mjǫlnir, which he has buried eight leagues under the ground. . When Loki flies to Jǫtunheimar using Freyja's feather cloak, he finds Þrymr sitting on a mound, twisting gold leashes for his dogs, and primping his horses' man
'Freyja and the Necklace', 1890. Freya, goddess of love, who wore a necklace as a sign of social status. Illustration from "Teutonic Myths and Legends" by Donald A Mackenzie, 1890. Camera manufacturer: Canon: Camera model: Canon EOS 5D: Author: James Doyle Penrose (creator);Donald Alexander Mackenzie: Exposure time: 1/4 sec (0.25) F ...