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[1] Sýrhallar ‘of Sýr’s <= Freyja’s> hall’: If translated the name Sýr would mean ‘sow’. Snorri explains in Gylf (SnE 2005, 29) that Freyja adopted many different names when she travelled among strange peoples in search of her husband Óðr.