Freyja belongs to the Vanir and joins the Æsir with her father Njǫrðr and brother Freyr. Sources associate her with love and desire, but the simple label “goddess of love” cannot contain her many roles.
In Grímnismál Freyja receives half of the battle-slain while Óðinn chooses the other half. Snorri also presents her as teaching seiðr among the Æsir. Sexuality, death, and magical knowledge thus meet in one figure.
Brísingamen, the cat-drawn wagon, and the falcon cloak are familiar attributes. Not every detail is attested in sources of equal age; some motifs are known mainly from medieval literature.
Female figures on pendants are sometimes identified as Freyja. Such readings are possible but rarely certain. Name, find context, image, and comparison must support one another.