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Freya or Freyja, (Old Norse: “Lady”), most renowned of the Norse goddesses, who was the sister and female counterpart of Freyr and was in charge of love, fertility, battle, and death.
Her father was Njörd, the sea god.
Pigs were sacred to her, and she rode a boar with golden bristles. The boar, Hildisvini, is probably a metaphorical image of sacred sexuality designed to bring crop fertility.
The Migration Period goddess who later became Freya was the wife of the god who later became Odin. While somewhat veiled, this is ultimately still the case in Old Norse literature. Freya’s husband is named Óðr, a name which is virtually identical to that of Óðinn (the Old Norse form of “Odin”). There is a story about a time when Odin mysteriously disappeared. When she could not find him, she wept tears of gold. The tears that hit trees turned to amber, or Freya’s Tears.
[19th century art image]
5 1/2″ gypsumstone statue, blue verdigris color finish.
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