Pagan Portals - Freya Quotes

“Freya is not a goddess to be taken in pieces or sanitized into acceptability; she is the full scope of life and death, the beautiful and the terrifying.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals - Freya: Meeting the Norse Goddess of Magic

“The Vanir are widely viewed as deities of fertility and beings who are more strongly connected to the natural world. Njorð is a deity with sway over the harbour, Freyr over crops and weather, and Freya may represent a principle of propagation or reproduction. As Simek describes it the Vanir are gods associated with good weather, sunshine, rain, helpful winds, successful harvest, and favourable seas, all purviews that pertain to fertility and would be appealing to followers who relied on these things to survive.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals - Freya: Meeting the Norse Goddess of Magic

“Others reject the idea that the events are pseudohistorical and instead see them entirely as mythic in nature, representing the battle between the agrarian Vanir and the war-like Aesir or between the Vanir as symbols of nature and the Aesir as civilization. And, of course, some choose to simply take the story for what it is, the tale of two groups of gods interacting.”
― Morgan Daimler, Pagan Portals - Freya: Meeting the Norse Goddess of Magic