• Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and seen as an ancestor of the Swedish royal house [citation needed].
  • Freyr is positioned among the Vanir, being the offspring of the god Njörðr and his sister-wife. He shares this lineage with his twin sister, the goddess Freyja.
  • Freyr was considered an ancestral spirit by the kings of Uppsala, who may have used his name as a title. (Freyr literally means “Lord” and is a title.)
  • As a Norse deity, Freyr belonged to a complex religious, mythological and cosmological belief system shared by the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples.
  • Dokuz dünyanın hepsini müthiş bir manzarayla gören Freyr in dikkatini devler ülkesi Jotunheim ve bu diyardaki Gerdr adında bir dişi dev çeker.
  • Known as the god of abundance and growth, Freyr is associated with fertility, prosperity, and the bounties of the earth.
  • Freyr is the son of Njörðr, and brother of Freyja; his mother is not named, but Loki says in Lokasenna, stanza 36, that Njörðr had Freyr by his own sister.
  • Freyr was one of the most widely and passionately venerated divinities amongst the heathen Norse and other Germanic peoples.
  • A symbiosis ensued wherein several Vanir characteristics were learnt by the older gods, and Freyr, in particular, made the concerns of the Aesirs his own.
  • He uses the Latinized name Fricco for Freyr. He mentions a cult image of Freyr at Skara in Sweden that was destroyed by a Christian missionary.