Talk:Freyja

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message: Shouldn't the article mention somewhere that "Friday" in the English language is named after Freja?  (Based on the old Greek planet/god/day of week Venus, the Goddess of Love was equated with Freja and thus in Germanic ares Friday is the sixth day of the week.  In countries that have Latin derived languages the connection to Venus is intact.  Italian: venerdì.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.32.253.72 (talk) 18:18, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This also grabbed my attention, for Edith Hamilton asserts the same in her Mythology. However, the articles on Frigg and Friday state that Friday is named after her. It seems to me that all three articles, Freyja, Frigg, and Friday, should mention the possibility. Helixer (talk) 03:06, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

text: Friday is indeed named after Frigg, or rather the English version of Frigg, and not Freyja. Considering Freyja is associated with love in the sources we have, not Frigg, this is indeed curious, but it's not a mistake. It's possible that the Scandinavian fredag (friday) actually means Freyja's day, but it's hard to tell exactly.  Unlike the rest of the week the Old Norse word for friday seems to have been a German loanword, possibly. --88.90.166.164 (talk) 02:32, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Friday

message: Freja is the real name of the godess i Norse Mythlogy. Not Freyja or Freya, both of the names are anglicized.
Here is the Swedish article on Freja; http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freja
Here is the Danish article on Freja; http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freja
Here is the Finish article on Freja; http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freja  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.255.18.124 (talk) 07:24, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The normalized Old Norse spelling is Freyja. Old Norse manuscripts spell it as Freyia or Freyja (there was no distinction between 'j' and 'i' back then). The form Freja is a modern mainland Scandinavian form, not an Anglicization. Check page 9 verso of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda - look at the fourth word in line 18 - it is FREYIA, clear as day. Haukur (talk) 16:51, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this is the English version of Wikipedia, shouldn't we be using the (popular) Anglicized version of her name, Freya?  The many foreign variants are just confusing and seem to try to render invalid any links to Germanic heritage (ie. Beowulf)--75.6.154.98 (talk) 04:06, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The only correct form in English is the normalized Old Norse spelling, Freyja, as given above by Haukur. It's bad enough that only the English pronunciation is given. My understanding is that the Old Norse pronunciation was more like [ˈfrœʏ jɑ]. 96.239.83.21 (talk) 23:53, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Freja

message: I have launched my rewrite of this article.
The old version was in outright mess. Problems were numerous, ranging from some sections without references to original research, theories presented as fact, numerous unattributed translation quotes, blatant agenda pushing, poor references, and incidents of confused, simply incorrect information (for example, stanzas from a 19th century poem attributed to an Old Norse text...).
The rewrite is incomplete and it probably needs copyediting (help?). There is much to be done here yet. Here's a quick to-do list:
#There are more attestations that need to be added to the "Other" section
#I'd like to go into a lot more detail about eponyms
#We need to bring in folklore information from Scandinavian sources outside of Sweden
#Freyja's names need attention. Perhaps a sub-article called Names of Freyja? 
In time... :bloodofox: (talk) 08:29, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite launched

message: cats are unnamed. what are the names of the cats?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.234.244.105 (talk) 04:16, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The primary sources do not offer names for the cats, unfortunately. :bloodofox: (talk) 16:13, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Bygul and Trjegul are the names of the cats, according to what sources I could find.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.208.239.85 (talk) 12:33, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Whatever the source for the two names you list, these names are not found in the Old Norse corpus. They are modern inventions. :bloodofox: (talk) 14:57, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

text: The cats are only named in the books of modern fantasy author Diana Paxson. For some reason the names spread. --88.90.166.164 (talk) 02:14, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: cats

message: I have noticed there have been a number of repeated attempts to add Frejya as an alternate spelling of the name, as well as a number of other supposed "alternative spellings." While these alternatives may be personal names derived from the name of the goddess, as far as I am aware, none of these alternative forms are commonly used in application to the goddess herself. The most common English versions of the name are Freyja and Freya. Freja and Freyia are rarer, but still not unheard of, English transliterations. The new additions, by contrast, are not commonly used to refer to the goddess. I am, for instance, aware of people with the given name Froya, but I have never once heard anyone call Freyja "Froya." Unless someone can prove that these alternative names are commonly used in reference to the goddess herself, I think we can safely omit them. --Katolophyromai (talk) 04:52, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: I have reverted 's addition of an infobox. These are misleading—they imply equivalencies that are not necessarily so—and reductive—they impose a saint-like set of functions on deities who were not necessarily thought of that way (and may well have changed in function over time). It's not an improvement, and ArbCom has rejected the argument that there is some benefit to them for consistency's sake. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:05, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: Recently an editor () added and then readded Template:Fairies to this article. This appears to be because an editor included both Freyja and Freyr the in template (which I've since removed). As neither deities are described as "fairies" anywhere in the folklore record (neither during the pagan period nor beyond), their inclusion is presumably because of some idea of elves as "fairies" (Freyr is associated with elves), a notoriously slippery term with a complex history. Discussion of elves as "fairies" needs to be restricted to elf, where it can be handled in the context of the development of the semantically blurry term fairy, and in context with the development of elves from Germanic paganism into Christianization and into today. The template needs to go. :bloodofox: (talk) 16:22, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of "fairies" template 

message: why this article without ifobox? --FPP (talk) 13:49, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
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message: The title of the page is a violation on wikipedia. "Freya" is the most common spelling. Rosengarten Zu Worms (talk) 18:48, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Violation