FeatherGoblinglimmer
September 8th, 2003, 11:32 AM
Hey, I am trying to find some more in depth info on Frigg, the norse goddess, wife of Odin. I have searched the whole of Mystic Wicks and i havn't really turned much up. I have been doing research both online and from books and i seem to have got to a point where I am reading the same thing over and over again. I shall share what i do know and if people can help me find more i would be grateful.
The chief of Aesir goddess. She is associated with love, marriage, and motherhood. She is the patron of marriage and motherhood, and the goddess of love and fertility. In that aspect she shows many similarities with Freya, of whom she possibly is a different form.
She has a reputation of knowing every person's destiny, but never unveils it.
She is frequently pictured as being very beautiful, wearing a girdle with household keys and weaving clouds on her spinning wheel. She sometimes dressed in the plumage of falcons and hawks, and she could also travel in the form of these birds.
She participated in the Asgardreid ( hunt) along with her husband.
Frigg's messenger is Gna, who rides through the sky on the horse Hofvarpnir. In some myths she was rumored to have had love affairs with Odin's brothers Ve and Vili.
With her husband, she was the mother of Bragi and Hermod.
After her son Balder began to have dreams that he was in great peril, Frigg traveled everywhere on Earth, asking everything in the world not to harm her son. Once these pledges were made, the gods began to amuse themselves by throwing weapons and shooting arrows at him for sport, since anything they hurled at him would simply be deflected. But Loki, the trickster-fire god, deceived Frigg into confiding that she had excepted a young sprig of mistletoe from taking the vow. Loki immediately went out and gathered a shaft of mistletoe, took it back to the assembly where the gods were still entertaining themselves by hurling things at Balder, and tricked the blind god Hod into hurling it at Balder, who was immediately killed.
Eir, a goddess of healing, was one of her constant companions.
She may have had an affair with Vei and Vili, Odin's brothers. .
She had three attendants, Hlin, Gna and Fulla, all of whom may have been the same deity in a different aspect as Frigg.
hlin.Her name means "protector", and Frigg gave her the duty to protect men and to console grieving mortals.
Fulla. She is the one who takes care of Frigg's coffer and shoes.
In a kenning(poem,) gold is said "Fulla's ribbon".
Her name is related to the adjective fullr that means full.
Volla is probably another spelling of Fulla.
Gna. She is the one who takes care of Frigg's matters around the world. Probably for this reason she owns a horse called Hofvarpnir, who is able to move through air and water.
This is what i have found. I am hoping there is a little more out there. I would like to find out some more info on her handmaidens,more about her hall in Asgard, and maybe even some pictures of Frigg and the handmaidens as so far I have seen none.
I hope people out there can help. :)
The chief of Aesir goddess. She is associated with love, marriage, and motherhood. She is the patron of marriage and motherhood, and the goddess of love and fertility. In that aspect she shows many similarities with Freya, of whom she possibly is a different form.
She has a reputation of knowing every person's destiny, but never unveils it.
She is frequently pictured as being very beautiful, wearing a girdle with household keys and weaving clouds on her spinning wheel. She sometimes dressed in the plumage of falcons and hawks, and she could also travel in the form of these birds.
She participated in the Asgardreid ( hunt) along with her husband.
Frigg's messenger is Gna, who rides through the sky on the horse Hofvarpnir. In some myths she was rumored to have had love affairs with Odin's brothers Ve and Vili.
With her husband, she was the mother of Bragi and Hermod.
After her son Balder began to have dreams that he was in great peril, Frigg traveled everywhere on Earth, asking everything in the world not to harm her son. Once these pledges were made, the gods began to amuse themselves by throwing weapons and shooting arrows at him for sport, since anything they hurled at him would simply be deflected. But Loki, the trickster-fire god, deceived Frigg into confiding that she had excepted a young sprig of mistletoe from taking the vow. Loki immediately went out and gathered a shaft of mistletoe, took it back to the assembly where the gods were still entertaining themselves by hurling things at Balder, and tricked the blind god Hod into hurling it at Balder, who was immediately killed.
Eir, a goddess of healing, was one of her constant companions.
She may have had an affair with Vei and Vili, Odin's brothers. .
She had three attendants, Hlin, Gna and Fulla, all of whom may have been the same deity in a different aspect as Frigg.
hlin.Her name means "protector", and Frigg gave her the duty to protect men and to console grieving mortals.
Fulla. She is the one who takes care of Frigg's coffer and shoes.
In a kenning(poem,) gold is said "Fulla's ribbon".
Her name is related to the adjective fullr that means full.
Volla is probably another spelling of Fulla.
Gna. She is the one who takes care of Frigg's matters around the world. Probably for this reason she owns a horse called Hofvarpnir, who is able to move through air and water.
This is what i have found. I am hoping there is a little more out there. I would like to find out some more info on her handmaidens,more about her hall in Asgard, and maybe even some pictures of Frigg and the handmaidens as so far I have seen none.
I hope people out there can help. :)