Oh, Norsefolk. How you give me links:

[eyja]

Viking Age Laureling ceremonies:

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/peerage.html
http://www.stringpage.com/laurel/laurel.html

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[ingusmoen]

Heyo. I found something last night that I'd like you to check out, regarding this whole elevation thing. I came upon Ingvi-Frey and was reading about a consideration that this was a real personage when it was mentioned that "Frey" added to the end of a name was a Northern synonym of "Master."

Obviously, that perked my ears up a little, but the book I'm reading it in is secondary-tertiary sources-- the compilation of information from several different translations-- so I didn't want to just land on it like I read it straight out of Snorri.

[eyja]

Looking in Cleasby-Vigfusson, there is an entry on freyja used as a noun in hús-freyja meaning "house-wife, lady, mistress". This may be where the theory of frey being used as "master" originated, but there is no mention of frey, only freyja, and it looks like it would be closer to the meaning of "head of the household" than "master" in the sense of peerage. Looking at the Viking Answer Lady's names, Frey- is used as a name element and does literally mean "Lord", but it would definately also be associated with the god. I do not know if it would have the meaning of "head of household" without the hús element. I have yet to find -frey(r) as a suffix element in names, only as a prefix.

It's possible that -frey was used to signify "lord" as a suffix to a name, but I have yet to confirm it's usage, or it's full meaning.

[ingusmoen]

You see? THIS is why I love you so much. You ROXORZ. If I haven't thanked you enough yet, I'll keep be nauseating about it.

[eyja]

*blush*