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Brísingamen

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Also known as Brisingamen

thumb|Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freyja, painting by Nils Blommér (1846).

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  • Etymology
  • Attestations
  • ''Beowulf''
  • ''Poetic Edda''
  • ''Prose Edda''
  • ''Sörla þáttr''
  • Archaeological record
  • Modern influence
  • See also
  • Explanatory notes
  • References

thumb|Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freyja, painting by Nils Blommér (1846).

In Norse mythology, Brísingamen (or Brísinga men) is the torc or necklace of the goddess Freyja, of which little else is known for certain.

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