Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir’s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck. Freyja lends Loki her falcon cloak to search for it but upon returning, Loki tells Freyja that Þrymr has hidden the hammer and demanded to marry her in return. In the poem Þrymskviða of the Poetic Edda, Þrymr, the king of the jǫtnar, steals Thor's hammer, Mjölnir. However, this saga makes no mention of the great necklace. The Þiðrekssaga tells that the warrior Heime ( Háma in Old English) takes sides against Ermanaric ('Eormanric'), king of the Goths, and has to flee his kingdom after robbing him later in life, Hama enters a monastery and gives them all his stolen treasure.

The Beowulf poet is clearly referring to the legends about Theoderic the Great.

Of Eormanric the Goth, chose eternal reward. To the shining city the Brosings' necklace, The brief mention in Beowulf is as follows (trans. Attestations Beowulf īrísingamen is referred to in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf as Brosinga mene. However, Brísingr can also be an ethnonym, in which case Brísinga men is 'torque of the Brísings' the Old English parallel in Beowulf supports this derivation, though who the Brísings (Old Norse Brísingar) may have been remains unknown. It has been derived from Old Norse brísingr, a poetic term for 'fire' or 'amber' mentioned in the anonymous versified word-lists ( þulur) appended to many manuscripts of the Prose Edda, making Brísingamen 'gleaming torc', 'sunny torc', or the like. The etymology of the first element is uncertain. The name is an Old Norse compound brísinga-men whose second element is men '(ornamental) neck-ring (of precious metal), torc'. In Norse mythology, Brísingamen (or Brísinga men) is the torc or necklace of the goddess Freyja. Heimdall returns Brisingamen to Freyja, painting by Nils Blommér (1846).

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