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From a certain wikiality,

Freya as goddess of love

Freya was thought to be the most desirable of all goddesses. When she desired to acquire the famous necklace Brisingamen (Brísingamen) from four dwarfs, (Dvalin, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer), they desired a night each with her, a demand which she eventually acceded to.

Later on, Odin made Loki steal the necklace for him, and demanded the same price of Freya as the dwarves had, though he eventually relented.

Freya loved jewelery so much that she named her daughter “Hnoss”, meaning “jewel”. Besides the necklace Brísingamen, she owned a cloak of hawk/eagle feathers, which gave her the ability to change into any bird. She lends this garment to Loki in Þrymskviða.

Early traditions do not distinguish clearly between Freya and Frigg, though the names have different origins and in the later Scandinavian mythology, Freya and Frigg were obviously not one and the same, being different goddesses with separate functions, personalities and symbols.

They appeared in the same text together on many occasions, however. Some sources say Freya was married to Odin, most likely due to Frigg and Freya once being the same character, and Loki claims that she had a sexual relationship with her brother Freyr in Lokasenna.

In two myths a giant wants to marry Freya; the owner of Svaðilfari as related in Gylfaginning and Thrym as related in Þrymskviða. Both were ultimately deceived and killed by the gods.

Freya as battle goddess

As a battle-goddess, Freya rides a boar called Hildisvín the Battle-Swine. In the poem Hyndluljóð, we are told that in order to conceal Ottar, Freya transformed him into the guise of a boar.

The boar has special associations within Norse Mythology, both relative to the notion of fertility and also as a protective talisman in war, probably because real boars can be quite fierce animals. Seventh century Swedish helmet plates depict warriors with large boars as their crests, and a boar-crested helmet has survived from Anglo-Saxon time and was retrieved from a tumulus at Benty Grange in Derbyshire.

In Beowulf, it is said that a boar on the helmet was there to guard the life of the warrior wearing it. Other sources show that Freya rode a chariot drawn by a pair of cats the size of lions.

Freya chooses certain of the slain on the battlefield to come under her wing in the afterlife whilst Odin gets to choose others, according to Grímnismál:

The ninth hall is Folkvang, where bright Freyja

Decides where the warriors shall sit:

Some of the fallen belong to her,

And some belong to Odin.

The association of Freya with death is underlined in Egil’s saga when his daughter, Thorgerda (Þorgerðr), threatens to commit suicide in the wake of her brother’s death, saying: “I shall not eat until I sup with Freya”.