Of the Sagas
Freyja
Freyja is the great goddess of love, beauty, and desire — and far more dangerous than that sounds. One of the Vanir, she drives a cart drawn by cats, weeps tears of red gold for her wandering husband, and owns the famous necklace Brísingamen and a falcon-cloak that lets its wearer fly. But she is also a goddess of war and the dead: half the slain are hers, and only the other half Odin's. When the giant Thrym steals Thor's hammer and demands Freyja as the price of its return, her flat, furious refusal — she would not be handed to a giant, and her rage shakes the halls of the gods — forces the gods to the comic ruse of dressing Thor himself as the bride instead. Freyja is the Norse imagination's fullest goddess: love and gold and battle and magic in one, courted by giants, feared by gods, never anyone's to give away.
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Hyndluljóð — The Genealogy Wrested from a Giantessunlock Origins, Lineage, and the Smith's Revengeunlock Loki's Wrangling — the Feast at Ægir's Hallunlock Thor's Wedding — the Lay of ThrymunlockFind Freyja on the map
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