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    In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse "(the) Lady") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and...
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    ICGV Freyja is an offshore patrol vessel of the Icelandic Coast Guard. The ship is named after Freyja from Norse mythology and is the first Coast Guard...
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  • Look up Freyja in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Freyja is a goddess in Norse mythology. Freyja may also refer to: MV Millennial Spirit, a Moldovan...
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  • The Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis holds that the Old Norse goddesses Frigg and Freyja descend from a common Proto-Germanic figure, as suggested...
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    simultaneously responsible for war, poetry and sorcery, and the goddess Freyja, a member of the Vanir who was believed to have taught the practice to the...
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    Fólkvangr (category Freyja)
    "people-field" or "army-field") 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...
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    calls Freyja a malicious witch, and claims that Freyja was once astride her brother Freyr, when all of the other laughing gods surprised her and Freyja then...
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    sources. All sources describe the god Njörðr, and his children Freyr and Freyja as members of the Vanir. A euhemerized prose account in Heimskringla adds...
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    identification of the goddess Freyja with Frigg in the Proto-Germanic period is a matter of scholarly debate (see Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis)...
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    gods such as the thunder-god Thor, the raven-flanked god Odin, the goddess Freyja, and numerous other deities. Most of the surviving mythology centers on...
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  • Freyja Haraldsdóttir (born 27 June 1986) is an Icelandic politician and a disability rights activist. She was elected to the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly...
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    dwelling of the goddess Freyja, and so that he may attempt to find Mjölnir, Thor asks her if he may borrow her feather cloak. Freyja agrees, and says she...
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  • of forests. Euptera freyja freyja (north-western Zambia) Euptera freyja inexpectata Chovet, 1998 (coast of Cameroon) Euptera freyja ornata Libert, 1998...
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    derived from the name of the Old Norse word for noble lady (Freyja). The theonym of the goddess Freyja is thus considered to have been an epithet in origin,...
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    Óðr (category Freyja)
    major goddess Freyja. The Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, both describe Óðr as Freyja's husband and father...
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    potential connections between Gefjon and Grendel's Mother and/or the goddesses Freyja and Frigg. The etymology of theonym Gefjon (and its variant Gefjun) has...
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    court of the goddess Freyja, and Thor asks her if he may borrow her feather cloak so that he may attempt to find Mjöllnir. Freyja agrees, saying she would...
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    Njǫrðr) is a god among the Vanir. Njörðr, father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði...
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    ultimatum. Thor and Loki go to Freyja. One of the two asks Freyja to put on a bridal head-dress and come with them to Jötunheim. Freyja is so enraged by this request...
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    Hildisvíni (category Freyja)
    Hildisvíni (Old Norse: [ˈhildeˌswiːne], “battle swine”) is Freyja's boar In Norse mythology. The story of Hildisvíni appears in Hyndluljóð, an Old Norse...
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    part seemed to have belonged to Óðinn and the other to Freyja. These examples indicate that Freyja was a war-goddess, and she even appears as a valkyrie...
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    known as Óttar the Simple, is a protégé and human lover of the goddess Freyja. He appeared in Hyndluljóð (the Lay of Hyndla), a poem in the Poetic Edda...
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    to give them victory, but Gambara invoked Odin's wife Frea (Frigg and/or Freyja) instead. Frea advised them to trick her husband, by having the Winnili...
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  • Gersemi (category Freyja)
    daughter of the fertility-goddess Freyja in Norse mythology. She could be the same figure as Hnoss, another daughter of Freyja. The Old Norse name Gersemi means...
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    transports diesel fuel. Built in 1974, the ship was previously known as MV Freyja under the ownership of an Icelandic shipping firm. It was shelled and its...
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    valkyries and of the goddess Gefion who may be an extension of Frigg and Freyja. Freyja, the daughter of the sea god Njörðr, was both a fertility goddess and...
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  • depicted as a god) Aglaea Aphrodite Apollo Charis Charites Hebe Kale Clíodhna Freyja Apollo Venus Lada Tāne List of fertility deities List of love and lust deities...
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  • Look up Freia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Freia may refer to: Freyja, a Norse goddess 76 Freia, a main belt asteroid Freia (chocolate), a Norwegian...
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    (OHG frouwa, Old Saxon frūa, Old English frōwe, Goth. *fraujō, Old Norse freyja) is a Common Germanic honorific meaning "lord", "lady", especially of deities...
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    Gullveig (category Freyja)
    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...
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