Quest for the Mead of Poetry is a translation and interpretation of seven Icelandic tales. In search for the
meaning of a dream in which she was given a silver necklace by a poet, the author happened upon
the key to hidden layers of her ancestral heritage.

That key was Brisingamen, a legendary necklace that belonged to Freyja, goddess of love and
fertility. Freyja's necklace, she discovered, conceals in its name the union of the Sun and the Moon as
seen in an eclipse, her red embers bleeding from under his coal black disk in a flaming necklace. It
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