FJOLNIR. <;r> 



women are called fruvor. 1 Thus every woman is the freyja of 

 her property, and she who has a household is hiis-freyja 2 (house- 

 wife)., Freyja was rather many-minded (fickle) ; her husband 

 was (3d ; her daughters were Hnoss (costly thing) and Gersemi 

 (precious thing); they were very beautiful, and the costliest 

 tilings are called by their names" (Ynglmga, c. 13). 



According to the Ynglinga, Yngvi Frey was the son of 

 Njord, and Fjolnir the son of Y r ngvi Frey. Fjolnir ruled over 

 the Swedish and Upsala domain, and died in Zeeland. A strong 

 friendship existed between him and Frodi the grandson of 

 Skjold, the son of Odin, and it was the custom of these two 

 chiefs to visit each other. 



"Fiolnir the son of Y r ngvi Frey then ruled over the Swedes 



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and the Upsala-wealth ; he was a powerful king, and peaei- 

 happy and season-happy. At that time Peace-Frodi was at 

 Hleidra (Leire) ; they were friends and invited each other. 

 When Fioluir came to Frodi in Zeeland there was a great 



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feast prepared for him, and people were invited to it from 

 far and wide. Frodi had a large house ; in it there had been 

 a large vat, many feet high, held together by large limbers; it 

 stood in the lower story, and there was a loft above in which 

 there was an opening through which the drink could be poured 

 in ; the vat was full of mixed mead, 3 a very strong drink. 

 In. the evening Fjolnir and his men were shown to their room 

 on the next loft. In the night he went out on the svalir (a 

 kind of balcony) to look for something; he was overcome with 

 sleep and dead-drunk. When he returned to his room he 

 walked along the balcony to the door leading into the next 

 room, and there he missed his footing and fell into the mead- 

 vat and perished " (Y'nglinga, c. 1-1). 



Svegdir succeeded his father, Fjolnir, and though several 

 generations had passed away since the death of the last Odin, 

 the veneration towards Asgard, the old home of the earlier 

 Odin, was strong in the heart of the people. 



" This Sweden they called Mannheimar (the world of men), 

 but the large Sweden they called Godheimar (the world of 

 gods) ; from Godheimar many tidings and wonders were told ' 

 (Ynglinga, c. 10). 



" Svegdir took the realm after his father ; he made a vow 



1 A lady is still called fru all over 

 Scandinavia. 



2 In Ireland ic Sacra 1 ; house-wife is 



re'/ja ; but in modern Icelandic. 

 It lix-fru. 



? i.e., mixed with water. 



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