Óttar

Óttarr is a Scandinavian name. It stands for 'fearless warrior'. Speficic uses of the name include: In Heimskringla: Ottar is a Swedish king. The same king appears in Beowulf as Ohthere. See Ottar (king). Ottar is the jarl of Östergötland who was killed by Harold I of Denmark. In Norse mythology, Óttarr is the protégé of Freya, and the subject of the Lay of Hyndla. See Óttar (mythology). The dwarf Ótr is sometimes known as Óttarr. The name Ótta

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Freya (Old Norse: Freyja), the sister of Frey (Freyr) and the daughter of Niord (Njǫrðr), is usually seen as the fertility goddess of Norse mythology. Freya means lady, female ruler, in Old Norse (cf. fru or Frau in Scandinavian and German). While there are no sources suggesting that she was called on to bring fruitfulness to fields or wombs, she was a goddess of intimacy whose tears were gold. She was also goddess of love, sex, war, beauty, prophecies, and attra ...

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Freya was thought to be the most desirable of all goddesses, owner of the attractive piece of jewellery Brosingamen (Brísingamen), which she bought from four dwarfs (Dvalin, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer) for the price of a night with her. Freya loved jewellery so much that she named her daughter "Hnoss", meaning "jewel". According to Snorri's Edda Freya had a husband named Odr. He often went away on long journeys, and for this reason Freya cried tears of red gold. Th ...

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Freya was the driver of a wagon drawn by a pair of cats as big as lions. She was queen of the elves. Her chambermaids were Fulla, Hlín and Gná. Her palace was in Fólkvangr and her hall was Sessrúmnir. Besides the necklace, she owned a cloak of hawk/eagle feathers, which gave her the ability to change into any bird. She lends this garment to Loki in Þrymskviða. ...

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As a battle-goddess, Freya rides a boar called Hildisvín the Battle-Swine. In the poem Hyndluljóð, we are told that in order to conceal Ottar, Freya transformed him into the guise of a boar. The boar has special associations within Norse Mythology, both relative to the notion of fertility and also as a protective talisman in war. Seventh century Swedish helmet plates depict warriors with large boars as their crests, and a boar-crested helmet has survived from Anglo-Saxon time and was retrieved from a tumulus at Benty Grange in Derbyshire. In Beowulf, it is said that a boar on the helmet was t ...

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Freya - Forms of Freyja. Freia Froya Freja - common Danish and literary Swedish form. Frøya, Fröa - common Norwegian, and rural Swedish form. Frya - the name of the eponymous Frisian goddess in the Oera Linda Book, though her attributes are somewhat different. Freya - Other forms. Gefn (according to Snorri Gefyon/Gefjun is not the same as Gefn)See also:

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