In Norse mythology, Brísingamen ( from Old Norse brisinga " flaming, glowing " and men " jewellery, ornament ") is the necklace of the goddess Freyja.

In Norse mythology, Freyja ( Old Norse the " Lady ") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death.

Stemming from Old Norse Freyja, modern forms of the name include Freya, Freja, Freyia, Frøya, Frejya and Freia, Frejya.

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

In Norse mythology there are themes of brother-sister marriage, a prominent example being between Njörðr and his unnamed sister ( perhaps Nerthus ), parents of Freyja and Freyr.

He called the element vanadium after Old Norse Vanadís ( another name for the Norse Vanr goddess Freyja, whose facets include connections to beauty and fertility ), because of the many beautifully colored chemical compounds it produces.

A second clan of gods, the Vanir, is also mentioned in Norse mythology: the god Njord and his children, Freyr and Freyja, are the most prominent Vanir gods who join the Æsir as hostages after a war between Æsir and Vanir.

* Freyja, also known as Hörn, a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death

The settlers of Iceland were dominantly pagans and worshipped the Norse gods, among them Odin, Thor, Freyr and Freyja.

* Brisingamen — a necklace belonging to the Norse goddess Freyja.

In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (" field of the host " or " people-field " or " army-field ") is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, while the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.

In Norse mythology, Sessrúmnir ( Old Norse " seat-room " or " seat-roomer ") is both the goddess Freyja's hall located in Fólkvangr, a field where Freyja receives half of those who die in battle, and also the name of a ship.

Although Frøya is a variant of the name of the Norse goddess Freyja, the Old Norse form of the name of the island was Frøy or Frey ( the ending-a in the modern form is actually the definite article-so the meaning of Frøya is ' the Frøy ').

Therefore the name of the island probably has the same root as the name of the Norse god Freyr, brother to Freyja.

The dialog between the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has its analogies to the Norse Þrymskviða from the Elder Edda ; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölner, Thor's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return.

Dís also had the meaning " lady " in Old Norse poetry as in the case of Freyja whose name itself means " lady " ( frawjō ) and who is called Vanadís (" lady of the vanir ").

In Norse mythology, Óðr ( Old Norse for " mad, frantic, furious, vehement, eager ", as a noun " mind, feeling " and also " song, poetry "; Orchard ( 1997 ) gives " the frenzied one ") or Óð, sometimes angliziced as Odr or Od, is a figure associated with the major goddess Freyja.

The name appears in a kenning for the major goddess Freyja ; " Óð's girl " ( Old Norse Óðs mey gefna ), pointing to a relation with the goddess.

In the Icelandic books the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Freyr is presented as one of the Vanir, the son of the sea god Njörðr, brother of the goddess Freyja.

Scholars have theorized about whether or not Freyja and the goddess Frigg ultimately stem from a single goddess common among the Germanic peoples ; about her connection to the valkyries, female battlefield choosers of the slain ; and her relation to other goddesses and figures in Germanic mythology, including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn Gullveig / Heiðr, the goddesses Gefjon, Skaði, Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa, Menglöð, and the 1st century BCE " Isis " of the Suebi.

Like the name of the group of gods to which Freyja belongs, the Vanir, the name Freyja is not attested outside of Scandinavia, as opposed to the name of the goddess Frigg, who is attested as a goddess common among all Germanic peoples, and whose name is reconstructed as Proto-Germanic * Frijjō.

Regarding a Freyja-Frigg origin hypothesis, scholar Stephan Grundy comments that " the problem of whether Frigg or Freyja may have been a single goddess originally is a difficult one, made more so by the scantiness of pre-Viking Age references to Germanic goddesses, and the diverse quality of the sources.

In verse, after Loki has flyted with the goddess Frigg, Freyja interjects, telling Loki that he is insane for dredging up his terrible deeds, and that Frigg knows the fate of everyone, though she does not tell it.

Frigg is the highest goddess of the Æsir, while Freyja is the highest goddess of the Vanir.

Many arguments have been made both for and against the idea that Frigg and Freyja are really the same goddess, avatars of one another.

There is also an argument that Frigg and Freyja are part of a triad of goddesses ( together with a third goddess such as Hnoss or Iðunn ) associated with the different ages of womankind.

The areas of influence of Frigg and Freyja do not quite match up with the areas of influence often seen in other goddess triads.

The goddess Freyja is nuzzled by the boar Hildisvíni while gesturing to Hyndla ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

The goddess Freyja declares that Loki must be mad, stating that Frigg knows all fate, yet she does not speak it.

The two then go to the court of the goddess Freyja, and Thor asks her if he may borrow her feather cloak so that he may attempt to find Mjöllnir.

The " wretched sister " of the jötnar appears, asks for a bridal gift from " Freyja ", and the jötnar bring out Mjöllnir to " sanctify the bride ", to lay it on her lap, and marry the two by " the hand " of the goddess Vár.

Njörðr is father of the deities Freyr and Freyja by his unnamed Van sister, was in an ill-fated marriage with the goddess Skaði, lives in Nóatún and is associated with sea, seafaring, wind, fishing, wealth, and crop fertility.

After Loki has an exchange with the goddess Freyja, in stanza 33 Njörðr states:

Njörðr is referenced in stanza 22 of the poem Þrymskviða, where he is referred to as the father of the goddess Freyja.

In the poem, the jötunn Þrymr mistakenly thinks that he will be receiving the goddess Freyja as his bride, and while telling his fellow jötunn to spread straw on the benches in preparation for the arrival of Freyja, he refers to her as the daughter of Njörðr of Nóatún.

Frigg ( sometimes anglicized as Frigga ) is a major goddess in Norse paganism, a subset of Germanic paganism.

Scholars have assumed that Saxo used Proserpina as a goddess equivalent to the Norse Hel.

Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).

Michael Bell says that while Hel " might at first appear to be identical with the well-known pagan goddess of the Norse underworld " as described in chapter 34 of Gylfaginning, " in the combined light of the Old English and Old Norse versions of Nicodemus she casts quite a different a shadow ," and that in Bartholomeus saga postola " she is clearly the queen of the Christian, not pagan, underworld.

Davidson adds that, on the other hand, various other examples of " certain supernatural women " connected with death are to be found in sources for Norse mythology, that they " seem to have been closely connected with the world of death, and were pictured as welcoming dead warriors ," and that the depiction of Hel " as a goddess " in Gylfaginning " might well owe something to these.

* One of several modern anglicizations of the name of the Norse goddess Iðunn.

According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

* Nanna ( Norse deity ), goddess and wife of the god Baldr in Norse mythology

Njörðr has been the subject of an amount of scholarly discourse and theory, often connecting him with the figure of the much earlier attested Germanic goddess Nerthus, the hero Hadingus, and theorizing on his formerly more prominent place in Norse paganism due to the appearance of his name in numerous place names.

The name Njörðr may be related to the name of the Norse goddess Njörun.

In Norse mythology, Rán ( Old Norse " sea " is a sea goddess.

* In Norse mythology, the chariot of the goddess Sól, drawn by Arvak and Alsvid.

Sól, the Norse sun goddess, will be devoured by the wolf Skoll.

Sigyn ( Old Norse " victorious girl-friend ") is a Nymph goddess and wife of Loki in Norse mythology.