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Frigg sits enthroned and facing the spear-wielding goddess Gná, flanked by two goddesses, one of whom carries her eski, a wooden box. Illustrated (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. Frigg (/ f r ɪ ɡ /; Old Norse: ) [1] is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology.
The name *Frijjō (Old Norse Frigg, Old High German Frīja) ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *prih-y(a)h, cognate to Sanskrit priya "dear, beloved". [1] [2] However, in the Germanic languages, the word's meaning split into two etymons: one related to the semantic field of "love, courtship, friendship" (English friend), whereas the other to the field of "freedom" (English free).
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.
Regarding a Freyja-Frigg common origin hypothesis, scholar Stephan Grundy comments, "the problem of whether Frigg or Freyja may have been a single goddess originally is a difficult one, made more so by the scantiness of pre-Viking Age references to Germanic goddesses, and the diverse quality of the sources. The best that can be done is to ...
"Frigg And Her Servants" (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler.. In Norse mythology, Hlín is a goddess associated with the goddess Frigg.Hlín appears in a poem in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, and in kennings found in skaldic poetry.
It has also been suggested that the names Freyja and Frigg may stem from a common linguistic source. [3] This theory, however, is rejected by most linguists in the field, who interpret the name Frigg as related to the Proto-Germanic verb *frijōn ('to love') and stemming from a substantivized feminine of the adjective *frijaz ('free'), [4] [5] whereas Freyja is regarded as descending from a ...
Frigga may refer to: An anglicized form of the Old Norse goddess name Frigg; Frigga (character), a fictional Marvel Comics character based on the Norse goddess - where some aspects of character history vary in the adapted versions of the character in Marvel Cinematic Universe; Frigga, a genus of jumping spiders, named after the Norse goddess.
The masculine form Fjörgynn is portrayed as the father of the goddess Frigg, the wife of Odin. [1] Both names appear in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. A number of theories surround the names and they have been the subject of ...