Freya is one of the preeminent goddesses in Norse mythology. She is a warrior goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, gold, seiðr, war, and death. She wears the sacred necklace Brísingamen and rides a chariot pulled by two cats, which are her sacred animal. Freya keeps the boar Hildisvíni by her side and possesses a cloak of falcon feathers which she lends to the other gods in times of need.

Along with her twin brother Freyr, their father, Njörðr, and their unnamed mother, Freya is a member of the Vanir, the group of gods associated with fertility, wisdom, nature, and seiðr, a form of sorcery. As seiðr was originally associated with the Vanir, Freya is credited with introducing the practice to the Æsir. Freya rules over the heavenly afterlife field of Fólkvangr whose inhabitants she selects from among the warriors slain in battle.