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English
Etymology
From Frey + -s- + -man.
Noun
Freysman (plural Freysmen)
- (Germanic paganism) One who honours Frey as their primary god.
2001 May, Ann Gróa Sheffield, “Frey, God of the World”, in The Pomegranate: A New Journal of Neopagan Thought, number 16, page 34:Many of the Freysmen and hofs to Frey already mentioned were Icelandic, and early Iceland was a republic, not a kingdom.
2006, Raven Kaldera, Wyrdwalkers: Techniques of Northern-Tradition Shamanism, page 13:The other path of Frey is that of the (slightly to very) effeminate shaman/priest with his skirt hemmed with tinkling bells, and this the Freysman who is most likely to go down this road.
2010, Joshua Tenpenny, “Forward”, in Honey, Grain, and Gold, page i:It has been an honor and privilege to assemble this anthology, and the experience has brought me from quietly thinking Frey is really great to confidently identifying as a Freysman.