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Frigg (/ frɪɡ /; Old Norse: [ˈfriɡː]) [1] is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir. In wider Germanic mythology, she is known in Old High ...
A depiction of Fulla kneeling beside her mistress, Frigg, (1865) by Ludwig Pietsch. Fulla ( Old Norse: [ˈfulːɑ], possibly 'bountiful') or Volla ( Old High German, 'plenitude') is a goddess in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, Fulla is described as wearing a golden band and as tending to the ashen box and the footwear owned by the ...
Gambara (seeress) "Odin from Lejre " (approx 900 AD): silver figurine depicting a deity identified as Odin, accompanied by his two ravens Huginn and Munin and seated on his throne Hliðskjálf (at his window), from which he is able to look down upon all Midgard. Gambara is a Germanic wise woman (also called priestess or seeress) who appears in ...
In chapter 19 of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Gerðr is listed among "rivals" of the goddess Frigg, a list of sexual partners of Frigg's husband, Odin. [17] Instead of Gerðr, the jötunn Gríðr, mother of Odin's son Víðarr according to the Prose Edda, was probably intended. One manuscript has Gríðr corrected to Gerðr. [22]
Freyja. In Norse mythology, Freyja (Old Norse " (the) Lady ") is a goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, sex, war, gold, and seiðr (magic for seeing and influencing the future). Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, is accompanied by the boar Hildisvíni, and possesses a cloak of ...
Frigga. Art by Greg Tocchini. Frigga (sometimes called Freyja[1]) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears in particular in those featuring the superhero Thor, who is Frigga's son. Based on both Frigg and Freyja of Norse mythology, she was created by writers Stan Lee and Robert ...
Fensalir. "Frigg and Her Servants" (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. In Norse mythology, Fensalir ( Old Norse " Fen Halls" [ 1]) is a location where the goddess Frigg dwells. Fensalir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn. Fjörgyn (or Jörð; Old Norse 'earth') is a personification of earth in Norse mythology, and the mother of the thunder god Thor, the son of Odin. The masculine form Fjörgynn is portrayed as the father of the goddess Frigg, the wife of Odin. [1]