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Freya: The Complete Story of the Norse Goddess of Love and War

Norse Mythology

Freya: The Complete Story of the Norse Goddess of Love and War

The Goddess of Love, the Necklace Brisingamen and the Slain of Folkvangr

The complete story of Freya, the Norse goddess of love and war. The Vanir goddess of desire and magic, owner of the necklace Brisingamen and the falcon cloak, who claimed half the battle-slain for her field of Folkvangr.

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  • 11 chapters, primary sources
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  • Original ink illustrations
  • From the Poetic Edda to the sagas
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  1. 01The Vanir and the Goddess of Desire
  2. 02Freya and the War of the Gods
  3. 03The Necklace Brisingamen
  4. 04The Falcon Cloak and the Art of Flight
  5. 05Seidr: The Magic Freya Taught the Gods
  6. 06Folkvangr: The Goddess Who Shares the Slain
  7. 07The Search for Her Lost Husband
  8. 08The Giants Who Wanted Freya
  9. 09Freya, Frigg and the Confusion of Goddesses
  10. 10The Cats, the Boar and the Sacred Beasts
  11. 11The Survival of the Goddess

About this book

About this Norse mythology guide

Goddess of love who took half the war-dead for her own hall. The complete story of Freya, her magic, her necklace and the giants who craved her.

She was the goddess men prayed to for love and the goddess who took half of the war-dead for herself, and the Norse saw no contradiction in that. Freya governed desire, fertility and the seductive magic called seidr, and yet her hall received as many fallen warriors as Odin's own Valhalla.

This is the complete story of Freya. The Vanir goddess given to the Aesir; the famous necklace Brisingamen and the price she paid for it; the cloak of falcon feathers that let her fly between worlds; the magic of seidr that she taught even to Odin; the field of Folkvangr where she gathered the slain; the endless wandering in search of her vanished husband; and the giants who kept demanding her as payment, only to be cheated.

The book follows Freya through the Poetic Edda, Snorri's Prose Edda and the sagas, recovering one of the most powerful goddesses of the North from the gaps in the record. Every chapter cites where it comes from.

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What you will discover inside

  • The goddess of love and desire who also claimed half the battle-slain
  • Brisingamen, the necklace she bought at a strange price
  • The falcon-cloak that let her fly between the worlds
  • Seidr: the Norse magic that Freya taught even to Odin
  • Folkvangr, her field of the dead, set beside the halls of Valhalla
  • Why the giants kept demanding Freya as the price of their work

Norse mythology book at a glance

TraditionNorse mythology
Chapters11 chapters
Length180 pages
SourcesDrawn from the primary sources, cited inline
Reading levelBeginner-friendly. Every name and place is explained from scratch
FormatPrint-quality PDF
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About the author

Guillaume Henry, founder of Mythologis

Guillaume Henry

Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Mythologis

Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every Mythologis book draws on the primary sources first, cross-references multiple translations, and avoids inventing details that aren't in the originals.

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Is this based on the original Norse sources?

Yes. It draws on the Poetic Edda, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and the sagas, with references to the standard editions.

Are Freya and Frigg the same goddess?

The book addresses this directly. They are distinct in the sources but overlap in ways that have confused readers for centuries, and a chapter sorts out what we can and cannot know.

How long is the book?

Eleven chapters, around 180 pages depending on the final layout.

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