In modern literature, Freyja is often used as a Norse counterpart to the Roman Venus or Greek Aphrodite. There are a number of modern poems, songs, and books written about Freyja. Freyja (and alternate spellings such as Freya and Frøya) has become more common as a given name for girls...
Freya’s name was “The Lady” or “mistress,” and this name could be the source of our name for the fifth day of the week, Friday. With her twin brother, Freyr (“The Lord”), these divine twins were the Norse deities of untamed nature. Possibly a sign of who was the most popu...
Freyja, (Old Norse: “Lady”), most renowned of the Norse goddesses, who was the sister and female counterpart of Freyr and was in charge of love, fertility, battle, and death. Her father was Njörd, the sea god. Pigs were sacred to her, and she rode a