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THE ^SIE AS OBJECTS Off WORSHIP. 175
Glum, in his* old days, became involved in a
dangerous suit for manslaughter, which ended with
his having to relinquish Thvera to the murdered
man's son. On the night before he rode to the
Assembly at which the case was to be decided, he
dreamed that he saw Frey sitting on the banks of
the stream ;• his own departed friends were beseeching
the God that Glum might not be driven away
from Thvera, but Frey answered them short and
angrily,- for he now remembered the ox which. Thorkel
the Tall had presented to him; After this dream
and the subsecLuent forced removal. Glum no longer
honored Frey so much as he had done before.*
In the temple at Upsala in Sweden, Frey, together
with Odin and Thor, was especially worshiped ;f
and that in some provinces of Sweden the people
put their highest trust in him, and even believed
that he sometimes appeared in human form, is
attested by the story—somewhat embellished, it is
true—of the Northman Gunnar Helming, who gave
himself out in Sweden as Frey.:]:
The horse, it appears, was regarded as a favorite
animal of Frey. At his temple in Throndheim it is
said there were horses belonging to him.§ It is re-
lated of the Icelander Kafnkel FreysgoSi that he
loved Frey above all other gods, and bestowed upon
him an equal share in all his best possessions. He
* Viga-Gl. S., 5, 9, 19,26.
t Adam of Bremen: de situ Danise, 233. The name Frieoo
which here occurs, can hardly refer to any other god than Freyr.
i 01. Tr. S; in Fornm. S. 1Y3.
§ 01. Tr. a Skalh. IL 49.