Freyr is called a God of fertility and that name is accurate as far as it reaches. But it does not reach far enough. His sphere is not just crops rising from soil at the right season. He stands for the entire condition that allows life to increase at all. The peace that makes cultivation possible. The plenty that follows right order. The good seasons that come when the relationship between people and the land they depend on is being properly maintained. He is not growth as a passive condition of