The English Wikipedia article on Freyja, describing among the archaeological record a silver pendant found at Hagebyhoga in Ostergotland, Sweden, representing a standing woman wearing a broad necklace around her neck, dated to around 1000 CE and held by the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. The article reports the scholarly theory that the necklace depicted is Freyja's own necklace Brisingamen, on which grounds the pendant is read as a likely image of Freyja herself, alongside other proposed but less securely museum located parallels such as Migration period bracteates from Germany.
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here for the pendant's find site, dating and the Brisingamen based reading as Freyja, independently corroborated by a Wikimedia Commons file record naming the same museum and accession number and stating the identification directly. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Sweden directly: "found at Hagebyhoga in Ostergotland, Sweden, representing a standing woman wearing a broad necklace around her neck, dated to around 1000 CE and held by the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in..."
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This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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