Freyja
Freyja, Norse Goddess of Love and Magic
Lady of the Vanir, who chooses half the slain
Freyja is a goddess of the Vanir who came to live among the Æsir. She is the sister of Freyr and the daughter of Njörðr, and the sources tie her to love, beauty and seiðr, the craft of foretelling and shaping fate.
Grímnismál says her hall is Fólkvangr, and that each day she takes half of those who fall in battle while Odin takes the other half. She rides in a chariot drawn by two cats. Her treasure is the necklace Brísingamen, which bursts from her neck in Þrymskviða when she hears she is to be given to the giant Thrym as a bride. Her cloak of falcon feathers lets the wearer fly, and she lent it to Loki when the gods needed it.
Snorri writes that she married Óðr, who went off on long journeys, and that she weeps for him; her tears are red gold.
Sources: Poetic Edda (Grímnismál, Þrymskviða), Snorri’s Prose Edda (Gylfaginning) and Ynglinga saga.
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