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Submitted: August 26, 2012
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Brisingamenby *AMyriadVice

Artisan Crafts / Jewelry / Necklaces & Pendants

Edit: Fixed it. Wasn't terribly happy with the shape or length of the necklace previously - but now, now I like it.

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My take on the Goddess Freyja's famous necklace.

In retrospect, coulda used some amber... though I do like the choices I used. As it is: gold pyrite, citrine and carnelian - in gold plated wire (though some is gold filled).

Not sure if I've done bib-style necklaces before, actually.

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Freyja is the Norse Goddess of the Earth, Fertility, and Beauty. She is accounted to be very beautiful and sexual, and was originally said to have been married to the traveller God Od, who vanished. She wept and wept for his loss: where Her tears fell on the land, they became amber; where they fell in the Sea they became gold, and both are sacred to Her.

Her most well-known possession is the wondrous necklace Brisingamen, ("Fire Jewelry"), made by the four Dwarf brothers Dvalin, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer. When She saw the gorgeous golden necklace She absolutely had to have it, and offered the brothers much gold and silver and jewels. But being Dwarves they could easily come by that, and anyway, the only thing they really wanted from Her was that She spend a night with each one of them. She readily agreed, and got Her necklace.

Ref: [link] - 26 August, 2012

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