Brísingamen necklace

Norse mythology

Also known as: Brísinga men

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In Freyja
…possessed a famous necklace called Brísinga men, which the trickster god Loki stole and Heimdall, the gods’ watchman, recovered. Greedy and lascivious, Freyja was also credited with the evil act of teaching witchcraft to the Aesir (a tribe of gods). Like the Egyptian goddess Isis and the Greek Aphrodite, Freyja…
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In Germanic religion and mythology: Freyja
…jewels such as the famous Brísingamen necklace, forged by dwarfs. She is said to be weeping tears of gold for her absent husband, but she is also blamed for being promiscuous. She practiced a disreputable kind of magic, called seiðr, which she taught Odin. She was known under various names,…
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