- Freyr is a fertility god in Norse mythology, and he is very renowned among the Aesir, even though he is not an Aesir himself, but a Vanir.
- Freyr was one of the most widely and passionately venerated divinities amongst the heathen Norse and other Germanic peoples.
- 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 is the lover of Gerd, the giantess of the frozen land, in Norse mythology. Their love story is one of the most romantic and tragic in the Norse myths.
- Where Thor governs the storms and rides through the skies, Freyr is grounded and rules over the fruitfulness of the earth and of man.
- Freyr is a Norse god of fertility, prosperity, and the harvest. He is a member of the Vanir tribe of gods and is often depicted as a handsome and benevolent god.
- 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.
- Bazen Yngvi -Freyr olarak anılan Freyr, özellikle İsveç'le ilişkilendirildi ve İsveç kraliyet evinin atası olarak görülüyordu .
- Bir İskandinav tanrısı olarak Freyr, İskandinav ve Germen halkları tarafından paylaşılan karmaşık bir dini, mitolojik ve kozmolojik inanç sistemine aitti.
- 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.