myth aesthetics (2/?): Freyr, Heathen fertility god, prince of the Vanir, and lord of the Land of Elves
Skirnir traveled north until he reached the house of Gymir. He entered as a guest and explained who he was and who had sent him. He told the beautiful Gerd of his master, Frey. “He is the most splendid of all the gods,” he told her. “He has dominion over the rain and the weather and the sunshine, and he gives the folk of Midgard good harvests and peaceful days and nights. He watches over the prosperity and abundance of humanity. All people love and worship him.”
He told Gerd of the beauty of Frey, and of his power. He told her of the wisdom of Frey. And at the last he told her of the love Frey bore for her, how he had been heart-struck by a vision of her and now would no longer eat or sleep, drink or speak, until she agreed to be his bride.
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, p.208-209
I chose Levi Michaels to be the faceclaim for Freyr because of the fact that he seems to have been a very sexual and very queer-coded god prior to Christianization of our sources. His idols are priapic, and he is associated very heavily with elves and magic which apparently made him rather effeminate and (dare I say) gay in the eyes of the dominant Viking culture (of course, Odin was also heavily associated with magic, so who can tell whether such a skill was really considered feminine).
