Editing Fólkvangr (section)

===''Egils saga''===
In ''[[Egils saga]]'', when [[Egill Skallagrímsson]] refuses to eat, his daughter [[Thorgerd Egilsdottir|Þorgerðr]] (here anglicized as "Thorgerd") says she will go without food and thus starve to death, and in doing so will meet the goddess Freyja:
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:Thorgerd replied in a loud voice, 'I have had no evening meal, nor will I do so until I join Freyja. I know no better course of action than my father's. I do not want to live after my father and brother are dead.'<ref name=SCUDDER151>Scudder (2001:151).</ref>
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Britt-Mari Näsström says that "as a receiver of the dead her [Freyja's] abode is also open for women who have suffered a noble death." Näsström cites the above passage from ''Egils saga'' as an example, and points to a potential additional connection in the saga ''[[Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks]]'', where the queen hangs herself in the [[dísarsalr]] (Old Norse "the Hall of the [[Dís]]") after discovering that her husband has betrayed both her father and brother. Näsström comments that "this Dís could hardly be anyone but Freyja herself, the natural leader of the collective female deities called dísir, and the place of the queen's suicide seems thus to be connected with Freyja."<ref name="NÄSSTRÖM61">Näsström (1999:61).</ref>