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𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒔 ⎯⎯⎯ ( Freyja ). - Blog Posts

9 years ago

Even given potential foreign influences, however, the fact that boars and herds of swine became memorialized in both narrative and placenames in Iceland undoubtedly reflects the sacrality of pigs as symbols of successful pioneering behaviours and reproduction. The Vanic associations of pigs extended both to nomenclature and to myths. In poetic diction, boars could be called vaningi (sons of the Vanir), while an epithet of Freyja was sΓ½rr (sow).

Diet and Deities Contrastive Livelihoods and Animal Symbolism in Nordic Pre-Christian Religions by Thomas A. DuBois (via hyacinth-halcyon)


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