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Definition of Freyja
1. Noun. (Norse mythology) goddess of love and fecundity; daughter of Njorth and sister of Frey.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freyja
Literary usage of Freyja
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heroes of Asgard by Annie Keary (1907)
"CHAPTER I. freyja, the wife of Odur, and luckiest of women. ... freyja, the
beautiful young Vana, sister of Frey, lived in Asgard in her palace of Folkvang, ..."
2. Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1882)
"Freyr and his sister freyja are suggestive of Liber and Libera (Dionysus ...
But in favour of freyja too we possess a weighty piece of external evidence. ..."
3. The Heimskringla: Or, The Sagas of the Norse Kings from the Icelandic of by Snorri Sturluson, Samuel Laing, Rasmus Björn Anderson (1889)
"Of freyja and far Daughters. freyja alone remained of the gods, and she became
on this ... freyja was rather fickle-minded. Her husband was called Od, ..."
4. Scandinavian Folk-lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the by William Alexander Craigie (1896)
"freyja and the Kings. To the East of the River Vana in Asia, lay the land called
Asia-land or Asia-heim. The people who inhabited it were called ..."
5. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"freyja and Loki. F. Drunk art thou, Loki, telling all your horrors. ... L.
Hold thy peace, freyja; I know thee well enough; there is no lack of lewd- ness ..."
6. Masks, Heads, and Faces: With Some Considerations Respecting the Rise and by Ellen Russell Emerson (1891)
"... leaden object discovered in excavations in England (precincts of London) serves
to illustrate the constancy and unlimited use of the freyja crescent. ..."
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