"Freyr" (1901) by Johannes Gehrts. (public domain)
Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic scholar who was born in 1179 AD. He researched and wrote extensively about Nordic mythology and traditions by getting the information from elderly Nordic people who could still recite the history of the Nordic people. He is credited with writing the Heimskringla, the Prose Edda, and possibly some of the Poetic Edda (all though the authors of many of these stories are still unknown).
I have equated through my Mythological Unification Theory the Nordic God Freyr to the Greek Apollo. After all of his adventures in the middle East and the Mediterranean, he settled with his sister Freyja (the Greek Artemis) in Sweden. Here is what Snorri wrote about Freyr:
The first age is called the Age of Cremation. In that age it was the custom to burn all the dead and to raise memorial stones after them; but after Frey was put to reset in a burial mound at Uppsalir [Uppsala], many chieftains used to erect burial mounds as often as memorial stones to commemorate departed relatives. However after Dan the Proud, the Danish king, had a burial mound made for himself and decreed that he was to be carried into it when dead, in all his royal vestments and armor, together with his horse, fully saddled, and much treasure besides, and when many of his kinsmen did likewise, then began the Age of Sepulchral Mounds However, the Age of Cremation persisted for a long time among Swedes an Norwegians. - Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, pages 3-4.
Now in Nordic mythology, Njordr who was a ship builder, was the father of Freyr and Freyja. But it was Zeus-Odin who was the father with the mother Leto of their Greek equivalents, Apollo & Artemis. It is said that they were adopted by Odin after the war between the Vanir and Aesir and prisoners were exchanged as Freyr and Freyja were part of the Vanir. As an interpreter of mythology, it is hard to say what is more accurate, but in any case they are considered children of Odin-Zeus. Also note, that the Amazon practice of burial mounds was brought into Sweden by Freyr. From my research, some of the Amazons were intermarried to the Cronides.
For those following my work, you know that I believe Ragnarok already happened. Per Wikipedia, Freyr is killed at Ragnarok:
Although deprived of this weapon, Freyr defeats the jötunn Beli with an antler. However, lacking his sword, Freyr will be killed by the fire jötunn Surtr during the events of Ragnarök.
The final battle between Freyr and Surtr, illustration by Lorenz Frølich (public domain)
If you don't believe me that Zeus is Odin, please refer to this from Wikipedia:
Snorri Sturluson starts his epic history of the kings of Norway with Ynglinga saga, a euhemerized account of the Norse gods. Here Odin and the Æsir are men from Asia who gain power through their prowess in war and Odin's skills
Do you see that Odin and his "Aesir" are "men from Asia", just as Zeus is credited from coming from Tyre and Crete and conquering Asia and the whole world, eventually?
I have also found a passage stating that the wife of Njord would not have relations with him, but married Odin instead, so it is possible that Freyr and Freyja are Odin-Zeus' biological children (Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson, page 12).
by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyr
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saemund
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