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All about Lord Freyr

I thought about making a post dedicated to Lord Freyr since the summer solstice is coming so I figure why not. Norse paganism we would celebrate Midsummer with maypoles and flowers and games and parties.

Attributes

Peace

Fertility (especially with men)

Agriculture/Nature

Sunlight

Rain

Prosperity

Harvest

Good weather

Symbols

Summer sword (his sword)

Antlers

Boar

A ship

Sunlight through clouds

Flowers or vegetation

Horses

Offerings

Mead but any alcohol can work like wine

Flowers, flower crowns, flower wreaths

Trees or any kind of vegetation

Vegetables

Horse items (doesn’t have to be real)

Pork

Sun imagery

Fruits

Sweet foods

He is often associated with LGBTQ+ so maybe donating to LGBTQ+ organizations or maybe give rainbows to him as well. It’s modern but quite a few people have associated him with homosexuality especially with gay men. But to clarify Freyr isn’t homosexual he has a female spouse

Greenman imagery or Horned God

Different Names: Freyr, Frey both means “Lord” and Frö, Ing, Ingvi, Yngvi, or Ing Freá it’s said to be an earlier name of Freyr. King of Alfaheim and Prince of Elves or King of Elves.

Runes:

Ing

Fehu

Jera

Tarot:

The Sun

Fool

Wheel of Fortune

Ten of Cups

Ace of Pentacles

King of Pentacles

General Information

Freyr is an interesting god and quite popular in Norse paganism, he is part of the Vanir tribe of gods, twin brother of Freyja, his father is Njord. His wife is called Gerðr or Gerthr and marries her due to quite unfortunate circumstances when he falls in love with her he asks his servant Skírnir to convince Gerðr to marry Freyr, Freyr offers his sword to Skírnir which makes Freyr fight with just a pair of antlers of a stag. Upon being threatened into marrying Freyr by Skírnir Greðr does end up falling in love with Freyr and they have one son named Fjollnir. He rules Alfheimr the realm of the elves as the Lord of the Elves, the Elves are said to bless crops and fields as well. Freyr is considered to be the noblest of Gods rules over rain and sunshine, oversees the prosperity of mankind, and brings good harvests and peace.

Now here’s an interesting thing about Freyr he was worshipped in Sweden in Uppsala where a temple was dedicated to him along with Thor and Odin. But it’s said the dynasty of Swedish royalty started when Freyr being the king of Sweden called the Yngling Kings as Freyr their ancestor. Freyr has a ship that can be folded and put it into his pocket it’s called Skíðblaðnir and his boar named Gullinborsti like how Freya is associated with swine as well as a symbol of fertility kinda how the Greeks saw bulls being associated with male fertility. Horses were considered to link to Freyr maybe as a sign of fertility but Horses are extremely important in agriculture like plowing the fields and transportation, there has been horse sacrifices to Freyr. If you saw the movie “The Northman” it really focuses on Freyr and his role in old Norse society and connections to fertility. One of the rituals being documented was having an wooden idol of Freyr on a chariot along with his priestesses blessing crops for good harvest.

He can be compared to such as Dionysus in some aspects of being an agricultural and nature god and links to male fertility.

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The sun lingers like a lover tonight, casting golden spells on skin and sky ☀️💛

A midsummer breath, warm with wishes, where time melts into twilight and everything glows a little more like magic 🌼🧡

May this midsummer night stir the magic in your soul ❤️🔥✨

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The wheel of the year continues on.

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Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914) - Midsummer Eve, c. 1908

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Elizabeth Blackwell: Iris

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The Lads, 1940. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Hirō Isono

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Moebius

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Source details and larger version.

A lifeline: my collection of vintage palmistry imagery.

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We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us - that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

-- Emilio Estevez

(Barcelona)

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Parco dei Principi Hotel, Sorrento, Italy - Giò Ponti (1960) 

© David Carlson

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Leonard Nimoy by Lillian Elaine Wilson, 2003