Freya: The Eternal Goddess of the North

Half of the warriors who died in battle did not go to Odin. They went to Freya. We have made Freya a goddess of love and beauty and forgotten most of what else she was. In the Norse world she ruled over the dead, sharing the battle-fallen with Odin himself. The magic Odin is famous for came from her; she taught him the seiðr that let a person see fate and bend it. When a giant tried to take her as...