Usuario:Gizmo II/Sotano

Gefjun ("giver"; also Gefjon, Gefyon, Gefn) was, in mitología escandinava, a vidente and diosa, a member of both the Vanir and the Æsir. All women who die vírgenes are sent to her hall, and thus she is characterised as a goddess of virtue, yet she was also a fertility goddess.

Moreover, "Gefn" is one of the alternate names of Freyja, the Norse goddess of procreation. It is entirely conceivable that Gefjun is merely an aspect of Freyja in the same way that Morrigan (in mitología irlandesa) has a multiplicity of aspects.

She was associated with the arado, virgins and good aleatoriedadsuerte. Girls who died as virgins became her servants in the afterlife.

Her husband was King Skjöld, son of Óðinn. Many legendary Danish kings claimed to be descended from her.

Having been promised by the Sueco king Gylfi as much land as she could plow in one night, she transformed her four sons into oxen and took enough land to create the Danish island of Selandia, leaving the Swedish lake Mälaren. This legend is commemorated by the bronze fuente Gefjun in Copenhagen sculpted by Anders Bundgaard in 1908.

The goddess' name is shared with a Norse term meaning "matrimonio", represented by the idioma inglés as "give", meaning "wife" (see dote), and found in the form of a Runa.