Ottar
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was the human lover of Freyja, the Germanic fertility goddess, and was said to he a distant descendant of the hero Sigurd. The warrior caught the goddess attention through grand sacrifices. He built a stone altar and turned it into glass by the constant heat of the fire he used in preparing his bloody offering. Freyja transformed him into a boar so that she could keep him with her in Asgard, the home of the gods. She even used the disguised Ottar as a mount. Ottar may have been a leader of a warrior band, a lover pleasing to Freyja who shared those fallen in battle with Odin. In the myth it is suggested that he is related to the berserkers, warriors who, 'howling and foaming in frenzy, left a trail of terror and leaped like wildfire over land and sea'.