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Freyja is a warrior goddess. Whenever she rides into battles, she gets half of the souls of dead heroes.

Freyja is also a priestess, and she taught Odin the magic arts. She has a magical cloak made of feathers which allows her to fly between different worlds.

Freyja is the patron goddess of crops and childbirths. She is also a goddess of love, whom lovers may send prayers to. Freyja often rides in a chariot pulled by big blue cats, or on a golden battle boar.

She is called;

"The Fair One".

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They are volva (staff-bearers), sei∂konur (sei∂-women), spákonur (prophesy woman/wife), spámeyjar (prophesy-maiden), spákerling (old prophesy woman), vísendakonur (wise woman/woman who knows), galdr-women (like sei∂-woman), vitka (a kind of sorceress), hei∂r (both a category of sorceresses and a personal name, especially for volvas), fordæ∂a, fl ag∂ (kona), fála, hála, g ́ygr, skass (all with a rough meaning of ‘witch’, with a range of negative connotations), fjolkyngiskonur (sorceress). In addition a special category of female sorcerers are related to the act of ‘riding’, which is illustrated in the mara, synonymous with the ‘nightmare’

(page 123) Iron Age Myth and Materiality: An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 by Lotte Hedeager (via hyacinth-halcyon)

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