Frigg
Frigga
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Queen of Asgard and wife of Odin, goddess of home, marriage and foresight, who knows every fate but speaks none.
Fearing for her son Baldr, Frigg asked everything in the world to swear never to harm him, but overlooked the young mistletoe. Loki gave a sprig of it to blind Höðr, who threw it and killed Baldr, and Frigg wept for him in her hall, Fensalir ('fen halls'). In later Swedish folklore, the stars of Orion's Belt were called Frigg's distaff.
Symbols
Her hall Fensalir Spindle (later folklore) Keys (later folklore)
In the ancient sources
The Eddas and sagas
- Hlín
- “protector” Völuspá 53
- Gylfaginning 20 Odin's wife knows all the fates of men, though she speaks no prophecy.
- Gylfaginning 49 She makes everything swear not to harm Baldr but skips the young mistletoe; Loki gives it to blind Höðr, who kills Baldr with it.
- Völuspá 33 Frigg weeps in Fensalir over Baldr's death.
- Lokasenna 26–29 Loki taunts Frigg, and Freyja warns him that Frigg knows all fates, though she keeps silent.
- Grímnismál, prose introduction Frigg wins a bet with Odin about his foster-son Geirröðr, sending her servant Fulla to set a trap.
Her spindle and keys come from later folklore and modern devotion rather than the medieval sources.
Cross-checked against these texts and records, in public-domain or freely available versions where they exist. Line, section and chapter numbers follow the standard editions, so a particular translation may differ slightly.
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These mix ancient attributes with modern associations from contemporary pagan and magical practice; the modern ones weren't part of her original worship.