Freyja rules over her heavenly afterlife field Fólkvangr and there receives half of those that die in battle, whereas the other half go to the god Odin's hall, Valhalla.

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.

In the poem Grímnismál, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) tells the young Agnar that every day Freyja allots seats to half of those that are slain in her hall Fólkvangr, while Odin owns the other half.

The introduction to the poem notes that among other gods and goddesses, Freyja attends a celebration held by Ægir.

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

Finally, there is an argument that Frigg and Freyja are similar goddesses from different pantheons who were first conflated into each other and then later seen as separate goddesses again ( see also Frige ).

In response, Loki calls Freyja a malicious witch, and claims that Freyja was once astride her brother Freyr, when all of the other laughing gods surprised her, Freyja then farted.

Prior to this, Hrungnir had been drunkenly boasting of his desire to, amongst other things, kill all of the gods except Freyja and Sif, whom he wanted to take home with him.

19th-century scholar Jacob Grimm proposes a reconstruction of a Germanic deity cognate to Sif in other Germanic cultures, and proposes a similar nature to that of the goddesses Frigg and Freyja:

It might possibly be a consequence of different forms of initiation of warriors, where one part seemed to have belonged to Óðinn and the other to 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 the poem Grímnismál collected in the Poetic Edda, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) tells the young Agnar that Freyja allots seats to half of those that die in her hall Fólkvangr, while Odin receives the other half ( Fólkvangr is here anglicized to Fôlkvang and Folkvang ):

Loki, the god notorious for his duplicity, conspires with the other Æsir to recover Mjölnir by disguising Thor as Freyja and presenting him as the " goddess " to Þrymr.

However after Thor and Odin's long-forgotten brother, Cul, kill each other in battle during the Fear Itself event, Odin passes control of Asgard to the Vanir, headed by the All-Mother, a triumvirate of female deities consisting of Freyja, Gaea and Idunn.

Reiya is also capable of becoming Freyja when extremely jealous or threatened, as well as other circumstances.

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.

All sources describe the deities Njörðr, Freyr and Freyja as members of the Vanir.

This has led to theories about the relation of the two, including that Njörðr may have once been a hermaphroditic deity or that the name may indicate an otherwise unattested divine brother and sister pair such as the Vanir deities Freyja and Freyr.

Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi.

Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

Nuzzled by her boar Hildisvíni, Freyja gestures to a jötunn in an illustration ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich

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.

The stanza recounts that Freyja was once promised to an unnamed builder, later revealed to be a jötunn and so killed by Thor ( recounted in detail in Gylfaginning chapter 42 — see Prose Edda section below ).

Freyja and Loki Flyting | flyt in an illustration ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich

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

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.

In chapter 37, Freyja is again referred to as Njörðr's daughter in a verse by the 12th century skald Einarr Skúlason.

These elements include a demand for a goddess by an unwanted suitor ( the hrimthurs demanding the goddess Freyja ) and the seduction of builders.

Chlorides of vanadium were generated in 1830 by Nils Gabriel Sefström who thereby proved that a new element was involved, which he named " vanadium " after the Germanic goddess of beauty and fertility, Vanadís ( Freyja ).

) Njord, in Noatun, afterward begat two children: a son, by name Freyr, and a daughter, by name Freyja.

Flanked by her boar Hildisvini, the Vanr goddess Freyja ( right ) ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

Both Freyja and Freyr are attested as accompanied by boars.

Tyr, by this time one-handed as a consequence of his sacrifice of his hand in the shackling of Loki's son, the wolf Fenrisulfr, attended, as did Niord and his wife Skaði, Freyr and Freyja, as well as Vidar, the son of Odin.

* 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.

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

* The builder of the walls of Asgard offered to build them in three seasons in return for three prizes: the sun and moon and the hand of Freyja in marriage.

In the Sörla þáttr, an Icelandic short story written by two Christian Priests in 15th century, Dvalin is the name of one of the four dwarves ( including Alfrigg, Berling and Grer ) who fashioned a necklace which was later acquired by a woman called Freyja, who is King Odin's concubine, after she agreed to spend a night with each of them.

When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja not having slept, or eaten, or drunk, out of longing for the wedding.

Simek says that " the most obvious explanation is to identify Óðr with Odin ," noting the similarity between their names ( and agreeing with the Ullr / Ullin parallel ), the long absences ( comparing them to Odin's exile in Gesta Danorum ), and Óðr's marriage with Freyja.

When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja not having slept, or eaten, or drunk, out of longing for the wedding.

These goddesses have been theorized as each performing a task representing an aspect of Frigg's, among them also Freyja.

One day, Freyja saw that the Dwarves were making a beautiful collar and she offered them both gold and silver in exchange for it.