Brísingamen
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thumb|Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freyja, painting by Nils Blommér (1846).
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Norse mythology
- Owned by
- Freyja
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- present in work
- Sörla þáttr
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brísingamen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.