Freja

**Family** | Chief Rune (brother)

**Freja of Grimsdalr** was the victim in A Rock and a Hard Place (Case #22 of Graecita. Prior to her death, she appeared as a quasi-suspect in Sound Of The Sea (Case #21 of Graecita) and made a couple minor appearances throughout Season 4.

## Profile

Freja is the 30-year-old elder sister of Chief Rune, who has brown hair and blue eyes. She wears a red norse dress with golden designs under a golden cloak with a collar made of gray feathers, a golden ruby necklace and a pair of iron-made earrings. She also dons red lipstick.

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## Murder details

Natalie and Mia decided to go to the viking ship to try and negotiate with the chief and have Anne come back to how she was. Zachary tried to warn the girls that the Vikings can be very aggressive, but Mia assured him they’re be careful before getting Natalie’s back and they saw all the way to the Viking ship. The girls went abroad the main deck and to their relief all the Vikings were inside the ship itself, so they started walking carefully around the main deck to look for the chief. But instead of finding the chief, they found the dead body of a woman near the ship’s dragonhead, who had her head bashed in. Chief Rune came into a crime scene and identified the lady as his sister, Freja.

## Killer and motives

Eventually, they found out that Gertrude was Freja’s killer.

Gertrude reacted to the murder accusations with shock, telling Natalie and Mia that she is a nurse, that her job was to heal people not to hurt him, but after the duo showed her their evidence, she panicked and revealed that she did it to save Madelina. Natalie was shocked to hear that Gertrude knew “Jane”’s real name and asked her how did she know, in which Gertrude revealed that she got to know it by eavesdropping on a conversation between Freja and Madelina. She explained that someone from *The Pedersen* gave away Madelina’s identity to Freja and when she learned about who she is, she gave Madelina an ultimatum: Either she comes clean about her lies or Freja would expose them herself. Gertrude knew that Madelina would be screwed if the Vikings came to know about her deception and tried to talk sense into Freja and convince her to keep Madelina’s secrets hidden. But Freja refused to keep her mouth shut, so Getrude did what she felt needed to be done to keep Madelina alive. As much as they didn’t want to, Natalie and Mia turned Gertrude in to Rune, who was surprised to see his sister was killed by the tribe’s nurse. Furious, Rune demanded to know why Gertrude did that, but Gertrude refused to talk, saying that it’s a secret she’ll take to the grave. Unsatisfied, Rune told his men to lock up Gertrude and told her she has one hour to reveal what’s her motive and if she doesn’t come up with a good reason, he will behead her.

Later in the case, Gertrude was pardoned for her crime.

## Case appearances

* The Serpent’s Lair (Case #18 of Graecita).
* Death in Atlantis (Case #19 of Graecita).
* Poor Unfortunate Souls (Case #20 of Graecita).
* Sound Of The Sea (Case #21 of Graecita).
* A Rock and a Hard Place (Case #22 of Graecita).

## Trivia

* Freja was modeled after Maggie Gyllenhaal, an American actress and filmmaker.