Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #11 Frejya
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The Gods and Goddesses of the Nordic Mythos Prose Poems were created following research for Gods Bless Ya!! Rock Opera with Alda and Sigrun Bjork Olafsdottir and a forth-coming book with SigRun Viking Art & Design.
Freyja
The gleaming gliding one is too bright and too beautiful to look upon. Be dazzled by Freyja.
Tears of self-sorrow, ever joy-seeking, ever filled with passions and yearnings. For longing all-wished-for, come love her. She will have you; see she floats above the meadow flowers towards you.
Oceans of Tears
She who cried amber tears filled the seas with them
Knowing it is possible to be forever broken and to survive
To have lost and to laugh again
Passions they rise in one
Fires they smoulder no matter the boulders we must move
Long ago lover hat time is now over and others are calling to us
Calling they are waving and hoping and smiling
Let us love
Giver of Golden Magic
Daughter of Njord
We hear of her
After we hear of a shamaness
Gullvieg
She came here from them
She too is a gleaming one
They give of their magic
Wands and gold
Wands and gold
Mother and daughter
Falcon-skin Flyer
Witches go underworld
In the spirit shape of an animal
After dancing in a feather-skin
Falcon in mind’s eye
Spirit in the direction
Witch in the heart
Dive deep for messaging
Lessons yes
Gatherings
Witch places
Be shaman
Be seeress
Be shape-change
Dive deep dark
Witch-calling
Take the form of a bird
For to fly to the underworlds
The place of all witches in the land of death
Speak with dead kindred
Be a mistress of magic, of witchcraft
Returning with precious prophesies
Sharing knowledge and destinies
Let no legend survive
Be secret as a seer
Pure Volva
Goddess Seats
There were twelve sit with High Frigg
Freyja was of this twelve
She is rounded in myth and in record
She is the one in our memories
Recollected
She is the important one for us
A full story
We know her
Of the two twelves
All were equal then
Goddess and God twelve
Highs seats they see us
It is Frejya we look up to
Vanir Invader
Did that Odin in disguise
Visit old gods
Did he seek out Gullveig’s daughter
Become Od
And then be with her
Breaking her heart all those years
Did the All-father cause
Amber tears?
Married for a Moment
Skip about like a nanny goat
In the shadows of night
Ever gleaming
Life with love
Be active
Giants might lust for her
Cave witches envy her
Eager dwarves craft for her
The goddess of love is
Free to take actions anytime
This is what she is
Your view is your view
Her will is hers
Warrior Woman
When war comes
Call the chariot
Wild cats are flying her
It breaks her heart to be unjust
Odin he forces her
Fair if she can be
She rides over each field
“Come die for me, die for me”
Freyja rallies the good heart
Death is her blessing
And love is in her halls
Fight for her
Brisling Beauty
If you wish for anything
Wish for the Sun
and the Moon
and the very sky to be yours
But also you might wish for Freyja
More beautiful than anyone
More beautiful even than Frigg, Balder, or
Nanna, Siv or Eir
Threads in her dress
Bangles and brooches
Amulets, ring and ankle-pieces
It is too much to look at her
Only Odin
has strength to look at such beauty
She glitters and flashes
As does her beauty
Even her tears are gold
And the necklace…
The necklace…
The necklace
I Menglad Gullveigsdottir
I who went bald without Idun
I thank the long dead of Brisinga
I have skin
Skins
Wands
And gleaming
If ever you shall ungleam me,
Oh how the walls shall shudder
Gold-studded benches starting from the floor
My necklace even shall burst
Challenge me not
Burst
Like Heimdall does, go champion I
By Gullveig my mother-soul
By the power of the Brisinga tribe
‘Bring that fire’
Engulf me
I am the ancient
I am the Mother
Goddess of love and death
The wish that Freyja never wished to wish
By the clip of this clasp bring
New life to the corpses
Let each man rip each other to pieces
Pieces bring
Clasp them together
To unite and fight
Those pieces
The Menglad Destiny
Odin forced me
As no man or God should force
Loki wished it
Odin usurped it
For they are dark
From folk-field Folkvang
The rainbow trembled and danced
In the dark dawn
As hips swayed
As I floated
Those crafters called me
I knew the way
So did Loki
He followed
And learned
Oh
A choker of gold incised with wondrous patterns
Fluid metal twisting, weaving and writhing
Tribes who died are embedded here
Dwarves fashioned from magic
Embrace the tragic
For I can rise high with Brisingamen
Death wars inveigled into gold
As daughters and serving maidens sleep
I return so powerful to halls of folk
I shall keep this
The Menglad
The neck weapon
The gleaming
The Brisingamen
For I paid high
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Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #2 Earth
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #3 Night
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #4 Augelmir
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #5 Heimdall
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #6 Eir
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #7 Vili
Norse Gods and Goddesse Prose Poems – #8 Ve
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #9 Siv
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #10 Hænir
Norse Gods and Goddesses Prose Poems – #11 Frejya
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Norse Gods and Goddess Prose Poems – #16 Njörð
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Norse Gods and Goddess Prose Poems – #19 Then Balder Was Dead
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