The Lay of Hyndla (In Story Form)
In the cold stillness of night, beneath a sky alive with stars, the goddess Freyja rides her golden-bristled boar, Hildisvíni, to the mountain cave of Hyndla, an ancient giantess who guards the secrets of blood and fate.
Freyja’s mortal follower, Óttar the Young, has staked his honour and inheritance on his forgotten lineage. To help him, Freyja seeks Hyndla’s wisdom — but the old seeress demands truth for truth and speaks the names of gods, kings, and heroes with a voice that shakes the stones.
As the cave fills with the echoes of ancient bloodlines — from Sigurðr the Dragon-Slayer to Haraldr Battle-Tooth — the goddess reveals that memory itself is magic, and that to know one’s ancestors is to awaken their power.
A story of ancestry, divine guidance, and the sacred weight of remembrance, The Lay of Hyndla bridges the mortal and the mythic — where every name spoken is a spark of the old world reborn.
Hyndluljóð - The Lay of Hyndla
Hidden among the verses of the Poetic Edda lies one of Norse mythology’s quietest treasures — Hyndluljóð, The Lay of Hyndla. It is not a tale of war or prophecy, but of memory, ancestry, and divine revelation. Here, the goddess Freyja rides beneath the northern stars with her mortal companion Óttar, seeking the wisdom of the giantess Hyndla, keeper of forgotten bloodlines and sacred truths.
Through their dialogue, we glimpse a world where to name one’s ancestors was to awaken their power, where genealogy was magic, and remembrance a sacred act. Hyndluljóð bridges gods and mortals, history and myth, teaching that the past is never gone — only waiting to be spoken back into life.
Forgotten by many, this poem remains one of the Edda’s most profound meditations on identity, belonging, and the divine roots of memory.
Freyja – Lady of Love, War, and Magic
Freyja, the radiant Lady of the Vanir, is one of the most powerful and captivating goddesses in Norse mythology. Known as the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, sorcery, war, and death, she embodies the full spectrum of human existence — sensual yet fierce, nurturing yet destructive. With her falcon-cloak, her cat-drawn chariot, and the fabled Brísingamen necklace, Freyja shaped the lives of gods and mortals alike. She chose half of the slain for her hall in Fólkvangr, taught Odin the mysteries of seiðr, and remains one of the most revered deities of the old ways.
Message from Freyja to Midgarðr - 18/09/25
Freyja, the Norse goddess of love, passion, war, and seiðr, speaks to Midgarðr with a timeless message of courage and truth. She reminds us that beauty is sacred, desire is strength, and to feel deeply is to hold true power. Her words call us to rise, embrace our fire, and live unashamed in honour of ourselves and the divine.