Freyja lends the falcon shape to Loki, and with it he flies north to Jötunheimr.

Freyja lends the falcon shape to Loki, and with it he flies north to Jötunheimr, and arrives a day later at Þjazi's home.

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

In the poem Lokasenna, where Loki accuses nearly every female in attendance of promiscuity and / or unfaithfulness, an aggressive exchange occurs between Loki and Freyja.

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.

Loki tells her to be silent, and says that he knows all about her — that Freyja is not lacking in blame, for each of the gods and elves in the hall have been her lover.

Loki tells Freyja to be silent, calls her a malicious witch, and conjures a scenario where Freyja was once astride her brother when all of the gods, laughing, surprised the two.

The poem Þrymskviða features Loki borrowing Freyja's cloak of feathers and Thor dressing up as Freyja to fool the lusty jötunn Þrymr.

Thor tells Loki of his missing hammer, and the two go to the beautiful court of Freyja.

Loki in turn also accuses Freyja and Freyr of having a sexual relationship.

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

Freyja replies that Loki is lying, that he just wants to " yelp about wicked things " that gods and goddesses are furious with him, and that he will go home thwarted.

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.

Freyja agrees, saying she'd lend it even if it were made of silver and gold, and Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling.

" Loki states that it was indeed an effort, and also a success, for he has discovered that Þrymr has the hammer, but that it cannot be retrieved unless Freyja is brought to Þrymr as his wife.

Þrymr finds the behaviour at odds with his impression of Freyja, and Loki, sitting before Þrymr and appearing as a " very shrewd maid ", makes the excuse that " Freyja's " behaviour is due to her having not consumed anything for eight entire days before arriving due to her eagerness to arrive.

Loki states that this is because " Freyja " had not slept for eight nights in her eagerness.

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

Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir ’ s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck.

One day when Freyja wakes up and finds Brísingamen missing, she enlists the help of Heimdall to help her search for it.

When Freyja found her necklace missing, she came to ask king Odin.

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

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 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.

Freyja assists other deities by allowing them to use her feathered cloak, is invoked in matters of fertility and love, and is frequently sought after by powerful jötnar who wish to make her their wife.

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.

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

Völuspá contains a stanza that mentions Freyja, referring to her as " Óð's girl "; Freyja being the wife of her husband, Óðr.

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.

There are clearly many similarities between the two: both had flying cloaks of falcon feathers and engaged in shape-shifting, Frigg was married to Odin while Freyja was married to Óðr, both had special necklaces, both had a personification of the Earth as a parent, both were called upon for assistance in childbirth, etc.

* 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.

Terrified, Loki says that if the goddess Freyja will lend him her " falcon shape " he will search for Iðunn in the land of Jötunheimr.

Loki borrowed a magical coat from Freyja that would allow him to take the shape of a falcon, then flew to Jotunheim until he reached the hall of Þjazi.

Terrified, Loki says that he will search for Iðunn in the land of Jötunheimr if the goddess Freyja will lend him her " falcon shape ".

Thor asks Freyja if she will lend him her cloak of feathers, so that he may try to find his hammer.

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.

Freyja has many names, and the reason therefor is that she changed her name among the various nations to which she came in search of Oder.

He was brought to Earth to aid Heimdall in the destruction of Loki, but quickly drops that mission to search for Freyja once he realizes she is there, too.

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.

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

Njörðr ( Freyja and Freyr's father ) says that it is harmless for a woman to have a lover or " someone else " beside her husband, and that what is surprising is a " pervert god coming here who has borne children.

Þrymr commands the jötnar in his hall to spread straw on the benches, for Freyja has arrived to be his wife.

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 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.

In chapter 6, a list of kennings is provided for Njörðr: " God of chariots ," " Descendant of Vanir ," " a Van ," father of Freyr and Freyja, and " the giving god.

In chapter 20, " daughter of Njörðr " is given as a kenning for Freyja.

Some claim " Friar's Heel " is a corruption of " Freyja's He-ol " from the Nordic goddess Freyja and the Welsh word for track.

High tells a story set " right at the beginning of the gods ' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall " about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods in three seasons that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

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

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.

Freyja weeps for him, but her tears are red gold.

In contrast, continuing the same journal thread, Leszek P. Słupecki argues that the Vanir remained distinct from the Æsir — except for Freyja and Freyr, whom he follows Snorri in seeing as having been born after Njörðr became a hostage among the Æsir, and thus regards as Æsic — and therefore that Ragnarök " no importance for their world ".