deity
Freyr
The named Norse Vanir god of peace, fertility, and good seasons. Not Freyja as his sister, and not harvest as bare crop-word.
Also known as Yngvi-Freyr
Norse tradition
Freyr appears in Norse tradition.
Skírnismál in the Poetic Edda stages Freyr’s love-errand, and Grímnismál names him among the gods’ seats. A named Vanir god in that verse corpus, not Freyja as sister and not harvest as bare crop-word.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Freyr appears in Álfheim.
Grímnismál in the Poetic Edda gives Álfheim to Freyr as a tooth-gift in youth. A named presence of Freyr in Álfheim, not Freyja and not Svartálfaheim.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Freyr appears in Vanaheim.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats Freyr among the Vanir and Vanaheim speech of that cosmography. A named god appearing in the Vanir home-world, not freyr→appears_in→alfheim as the PE light-elf gift seat alone and not Freyja as his sister.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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Skidbladnir is sacred to Freyr.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning seats Skíðblaðnir among the folding ship the dwarfs make for Freyr, always with a fair wind. A named ship dedicated to that Vanir god, not naglfar as the nail-ship of ruin and not a bare boat dump.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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sources
- Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.