Editing Freyja (section)

==Archaeological record and historic depictions==
[[File:Pendant (6880384805).jpg|thumb|upright|The pendant found in Hagebyhöga, now on display in the [[Swedish Museum of National Antiquities]] in [[Stockholm]]]]
[[File:Fra Osebergfunnet - no-nb digifoto 20150217 00188 NB MIT FNR 16730.jpg|thumb|The reconstructed wagon found in the Viking Age Oseberg ship burial, featuring a depiction of nine cats]]

A [[völva|priestess]] was buried {{circa|1000}} with considerable splendour in Hagebyhöga in [[Östergötland]]. In addition to being buried with her [[wand]], she had received great riches which included horses, a wagon and an Arabian bronze pitcher. There was also a silver pendant, which represents a woman with a broad necklace around her neck. This kind of necklace was only worn by the most prominent women during the Iron Age and some have interpreted it as Freyja's necklace Brísingamen. The pendant may represent Freyja herself.<ref name="Harrison58">Harrison, D. & Svensson, K. (2007). ''Vikingaliv''. Fälth & Hässler, Värnamo. {{ISBN|978-91-27-35725-9}} p. 58</ref>

A 7th-century [[Phalera (military decoration)|phalara]] found in a "warrior grave" in what is now [[Eschwege]] in northwestern Germany features a female figure with two large braids flanked by two "cat-like" beings and holding a staff-like object. This figure has been interpreted as Freyja.{{sfnp|Gaimster|1998|pp=54–55}} This image may be connected to various B-type [[bracteate]]s, referred to as the [[Fürstenberg-type]], that may also depict the goddess; they "show a female figure, in a short skirt and double-looped hair, holding a stave or sceptre in her right hand and a double-cross feature in the left".{{sfnp|Gaimster|1998|pp=54–55}}

Upon its discovery, the 10th century [[Oseberg ship burial]] was found to contain a ceremonial wagon. One side of the ornate wagon features a depiction of nine cats. Scholars have linked this depiction to Freyja's cat-led chariot and [[Nerthus#Wagons, wagon processions, the Vanir, and cyclical rituals|a broader associations between the Vanir and wagons]].<ref name="INGUNN-2020-1278">Ingunn Ásdísardóttir 2020: 1278–1279, 1287.</ref>

A 12th century depiction of a cloaked but otherwise nude woman riding a large cat appears on a wall in the [[Schleswig Cathedral]] in [[Schleswig-Holstein]], [[Northern Germany]]. Beside her is similarly a cloaked yet otherwise nude woman riding a [[distaff]]. Due to iconographic similarities to the literary record, these figures have been theorized as depictions of Freyja and Frigg respectively.{{sfnp|Jones|Pennick|1995|pp=144–145}}