Freyja is the Goddess of love, beauty and fertility and belongs to the Vanir tribe of Gods. Her father, Njord is the God of the sea. She is the twin sister of Freyr, the God of Harvest. She introduced the Gods to Seidr which is a magical practice of predicting as well as changing the future.

Freyja is one of the popular and gentler Goddesses in Norse mythology. While Thor used his strength, Odin used his disguises and Loki used his tricks, Freyja was known to use her beauty to get the work done.

The most common symbol associated with Freyja is the Brisingamen Necklace – a necklace that was so beautiful that Freyja was willing to go to extreme lengths to have it. One night, she wandered into the land of the dwarves. She saw some dwarves making the necklace and said that she would pay them any amount of money for it. But the dwarves had a condition that Freyja had to spend one night with each of them. Later Loki stole this necklace from her but was eventually recovered by Heimdall and returned to Freyja.

Freyja is associated with her golden chariot pulled by two blue cats, which was a gift from Thor. Sometimes she also rode the boar Hildisvini with golden bristles. She also had a cloak made of feathers from the falcon bird.

There is one famous myth which talks about how the loyal Freyja travelled across all the realms to search for her lost husband and she wept tears of gold. There is another myth where the giant Thyrm who stole Thor’s hammer agreed to return it only if he got to marry the beautiful Freyja. Another myth also recounts a similar story where a giant builder who agreed to fortify the walls of Asgard asked for the sun, the moon and Freyja’s hand in marriage. In another myth, the giant Hrungnir threatened to destroy Valhalla and sink Asgard but was not keen on killing Freyja. Such was the magic of her beauty that everyone wanted to marry Freyja.