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One of the principal deities of the Norse pantheon, the lovely and enchanting Freyja was a goddess of blessings, love, lust, and fertility. A member of the Vanir tribe of deities, Freyja shared her people’s penchant for the magical arts of divination. It was Freyja who introduced the gods to seidr, a form of magic that allowed practitioners to know and change the future. Freyja was gentler and more agreeable than the other Norse deities. Where Thor accomplished his goals through aggression and Odin and Loki resorted to trickery, Freyja achieved her ends with the gentler persuasions of gifts, beauty and sex. While Freyja was often unselfish and helpful, she did have a darker side. Like the male gods, Freyja had a taste for blood and fought fiercely in battle. It was said she took the lives of half the warriors ever slain in battle. While Freyja did not typically wield weapons of war, she did possess many accoutrements of a different sort. One such item was a cloak made of falcon feathers that gave the gift of flight to anyone who wore it. When she was not wearing it herself, Freyja lent the cloak to companions and collaborators who agreed to do her bidding. Freyja’s most prized possession was likely the necklace, or torc, known as Brísingamen. Brísingamen was made by dwarves and purchased at a dear price. Freyja guarded the necklace from any and all would-be thieves with a fiery passion. Freyja was presented as a leading deity of the Vanir and a player in the Aesir-Vanir War. She was the wife of Hodr, with whom she had the daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi, who “were so very beautiful, that afterwards, the most precious jewels were called by their names.” When the two sides reached a peace settlement, Odin asked Freyja to oversee the offering of sacrifices. In this role, Freyja preserved peace among the gods and maintained the cycles of fertility that kept the world in motion. She was praised and celebrated so much so, that her personal name was applied to all “ladies” of good social standing.

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