SCAN 3203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kenning
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Can be recognized by her feathered cloak. Freyja agrees to this: after freyja sleeps with the dwarves, they give her the necklace, brisingamen, loki was unknowingly watching freyja the whole time and tells odin about how. Freyja acquired the necklace: odin is upset and asks loki to bring him the necklace, loki slips into freyja"s room as a fly. The story of freyja having a necklace named brisingamen is a norse myth, however how she acquired it may have been fabricated by christian missionaries who wrote the story down. Odr constantly travels which makes freyja weep gold: her feathered cloak allows her to turn into a hawk, she is often sought after as a prize by giants, loki constantly accuses her if infidelity to her husband. In fact, freyja is accused by a few different norse figures of being promiscuous and sex crazed (i. e. in the.
