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To compliment yesterday's post, here is the other mural piece depicting Freyja . While the pointing arm on Frigg strategically covers her nipples, here Freyja is open-armed to rein her cat-mount , probably an enlarged Bygul or Trjegul that in the Norse Lore pulls her chariot, and holds a horn to call battle as she is also a War Goddess. Like Frigg, we believe this version was intended to be witch-like and partly unflattering (though this could just be medieval artistic conventions), but it again attests to the endurance of the goddess. #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e ...

While reading Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick's A History of Pagan Europe , we came across an illustration of a 12th century CE depiction of Frigg riding a distaff on the wall of Schleswig Cathedral in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, and found this picture of it. Possibly an attempt to reduce the Goddess to a witch, but it also shows the Goddess' endurance as a figure still referential enough for inclusion in a church mural centuries after conversion. The flying distaff may reinforce the line of thought that her weaving was ritually akin to the Norns' weaving of destiny, which allowed her the secret knowledge of a future that she could never speak of to anyone else. [Photo by Alexander Foss.] #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythol...