Freya

Goddess of Love and Fertility

Freya is the deity of erotic and sensual love, adept at the practice of magic. Some myths say she taught the Vanir art of witchcraft to the Aesir. Freya is the daughter of Njord and the twin sister of Frey. She delights in romantic poetry and is considered the most magnanimous of the goddesses. Freya weeps tears of gold when her husband, Odur, goes on his journeys. She possesses the Necklace of the Brisings, sometimes called Brisingamen, a fantastically beautiful and priceless piece of jewelry crafted by the dwarves. She rides to battle in a chariot pulled by twin lions. Half those slain in battle, and all women so slain, come to Freya’s hall Sessrumnir.

An offer-stead to me he raised,

with stones constructed;

now is the stone

as glass become.

With the blood of oxen

he newly sprinkled it.

Ottar ever trusted the Asyniur (Aesir).