Freya (or Freyja) was the Norse goddess of fertility. She was a member of the Vanir, the Germanic gods of the earth and life (as opposed to the Aesir, the sky gods of war and death). Freya was young and beautiful, had a twin brother Freyr, and she had lots of cool toys. She owned the magic necklace Brisingamen, a chariot drawn by a pair of cats, a wild boar, and a cloak of falcon feathers. Not only that, but she gets half of all the souls who die in battle (Odin gets the other half).
In the novel Freya the Huntress, Freya is a young woman living with her husband and sister in western Ysland (Iceland). Her quiet life of hunting deer is shattered when a strange beast, a giant fox demon, comes down out of the snowy hills to attack her sister. And thus the story begins as Freya sets out to find a cure that will save her sister from transforming into a fox demon herself.
