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FREY (Old Norse, Freyr)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREY (Old Norse, Freyr)  son of Njord, one of the
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chief deities in the
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northern
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pantheon and the
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national
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god of the Swedes . He is the god of fruitfulness, the giver of
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sunshine and
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rain, and thus the source of all prosperity .

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