Freyja's necklace Brisingamen features prominently in Betsy Tobin's novel Iceland, where the necklace is seen to have significant protective powers.

* Freyja also has three special artefacts, including the priceless necklace Brisingamen, a cloak that allows her to assume the form of a falcon and a chariot drawn by a pair of great cats.

Beowulf gives her three horses and a magnificent torc ( the Brosing, i. e. Brisingamen, the necklace of the goddess Freyja ) that he received from Wealhþeow.

The necklace is called Brosinga mene, and the name is held to be either a corruption or a misspelling of OE Breosinga mene, ON Brisingamen, Freyja's necklace.

Richard North compares the gift of the necklace to Brosing, Freyja's Brisingamen and he comments that,

Reiya becomes Freyja when the necklace Brisingamen is put around her neck, but reverts back to Reiya when the necklace is removed, with no memory of what happens while wearing it.

The story borrowed parts of Heimskringla, parts of the poem Lokasenna ( of Gefjon sleeping with a boy for a necklace ), parts of the Húsdrápa poem ( of Loki stealing Brisingamen ), and the eternal battle Hjaðningavíg.

The majority of the non-English words used in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen have been adopted from Norse mythology.

Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freyja, in an anachronistic painting centuries after the era of the myth's popularity

Diana Paxson's novel Brisingamen features Freyja and her bracelet.

Alan Garner wrote a children's fantasy novel called The Weirdstone of Brisingamen about an enchanted teardrop bracelet.

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has a perfumed oil scent named Brisingamen.

Fundindelve was provided with a guardian, the ancient wizard Cadellin Silverbrow, and the heart of the white magic was sealed inside a jewel, the Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

The story of the king and the wizard living under the hill played an important part in the young Alan's life, becoming " deeply embedded in my psyche " and heavily influencing his novels, in particular The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

It was at Toad Hall, on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 September 1957, that Garner set about writing his first novel, which would result in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

In a 1968 article, Garner explained why he chose to set The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a real landscape rather than in a fictional realm, remarking that " If we are in Eldorado, and we find a mandrake, then OK, so it's a mandrake: in Eldorado anything goes.

" Following its release in 1960, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen proved to be a " resounding success ... both critically and commercially ", later being described as " a tour de force of the imagination, a novel that showed almost every writer who came afterwards what it was possible to achieve in novels ostensibly published for children.

In the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, published by HarperCollins in 2010, several notable British fantasy novelists praised Garner and his work.

Upon initial publication, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen was a critical success.

Philip himself would devote a chapter to both The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath in his book A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner ( 1981 ), which was based on his earlier Ph. D thesis awarded by the University of London the previous year.

Later in his critique, Philip noted that the " most disturbing aspect of Garner's use of magic " in both The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and its sequel The Moon of Gomrath was his " seemingly haphazard " manner of incorporating elements taken from a myriad of different European mythologies.

In the 1970s, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen was adapted as a musical by Paul Pearson and was staged in Manchester and Essex.

In literature, Macclesfield is the second principal location of the fantasy novels The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner.

* The plot of the book The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner revolves around a Cheshire variant of the legend.

It is the sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

To ease the surrender of the Weirdstone in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Susan was given a magical bracelet by Angharad Goldenhand.

The wizard Cadellin, guardian of the sleeping knights in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, cannot restore Susan after the Brollachan has been driven out of her body ; instead perceiving that her spirit has been driven to another spiritual dimension, unreachable with ordinary means.

Lios alfar and svart alfar ( see below ) also appear in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner.

* The novelist Alan Garner, who spent much of his childhood there and used it as the principal scene of his fantasy classics The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath.

Godfrey interrupts with unexpected good news — realizing Mr. Bullock's problems, Godfrey had sold short, using money raised by pawning Cornelia's necklace, then buying up the stock that Bullock had sold.

To help recover his heart's pieces, Ahiru's necklace also enables her to transform into the beautiful Princess Tutu — a mature, expert ballerina with special powers.

The season mostly revolves around a brutal new drug lord, Armadillo — a sadistic child rapist who likes to set his rivals on fire using a tire necklace and gasoline — who begins to take over the drug trade in Farmington.

The southern gate statue has many unusual features — an unusual headgear ; a large skull above the forehead ; lips parted with protruding teeth ; statues adorned with a single bead necklace, earrings, plain twisted armlets and thick wrist-lets ; a stooped right shoulder ; a globe held at navel level ; the robe is held at the right thigh by the left hand, and the legs are shapeless.

Her avant-garde design was so radical that she and a selection of other applicants were asked to submit revised designs for a second round of competition — which she again won with " a sleek and dazzling complex of sharp lines and surfaces that she compared to an ' inverted necklace '".

These dials — disguised as a watch and a necklace — only have the letters H-E-R-O on them, and work only for an hour, after which they will not work for another hour.

In Sickbay, the Troyian ambassador again approaches Elaan with the royal gifts — a wedding dress and a necklace of large, roughly cut gemstones, saying that they symbolize hope for peace.

Elaan is puzzled because to her the jewels are common stones — the necklace is of little monetary value on her world.

Grave goods found with the body include a decorated bead necklace, a bronze knife, and a bronze awl — a suggestion that he was a person of some importance.

Guarding the southern plains, this fortress was once a central medallion in the necklace of the Norman castles and outposts dotted along the outskirts of The Pale — the area around Dublin under English rule during the medieval period.

The environs are squalid — nearby are a vase with a few flowers and a cheap bead necklace dangling on the wall — but she is sheltered in a tender womb of light.

Mandy is rewarded with an emerald necklace and a luxury she has longed for — gloves ; Ozma gives her seven sets of seven gloves for her seven hands.