*Fraujaz
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*Fraujaz or *Frauwaz, feminine *Frawjōn is a Common Germanic honorific meaning "lord", "lady", especially of deities.
A reproduction of the ithyphallic Rällinge statue, interpreted as a Viking Age depiction of Freyr
Freyja
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In Norse mythology, Freyja is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, war, gold, and seiðr. Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompani
*Fraujaz
…meaning "lord", "lady", especially of deities. The epithet came to be used as a proper name of two separate deities in Norse mythology, Freyr and Freyja. The term's etymology is ultimately from a PIE *pro-w-(y)o-s, containing *pro- "in front" (cf. first, Fürst and Sanskrit purohita "high priest", lit…
A depiction of Freyja. Within Norse paganism, Freyja was the deity primarily associated with seiðr.
Freja (1905) by John Bauer
Freyja and Loki flyte in an illustration (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.
While Freyja's cats look on, the god Thor is unhappily dressed as Freyja in Ah, what a lovely maid it is! (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith.