Frigg

*Well Beloved Lady*

**Also known as:** Frigga; Fricka; Saga

**Pantheon**: Norse

**Authority**: Marriage

## Information

Frigg is a spirit of divination, fertility, matrimony, and childbirth. Her husband is Odin the Allfather, Leader of the Aesir. Her father is Fjorgin. The identity of her mother is unclear. It is also not entirely clear to which pantheon Frigg herself belongs: Aesir, Vanir, or other.

It can be very difficult to distinguish Frigg from Freya. Although clearly distinct spirits in Scandinavia, the two may have merged into one spirit in the German lands, although as so much information has been lost, suppressed, and garbled, it’s now impossible to definitively determine. Ironically, because Christian authorities despised Freya so intensely, more lucid, substantial information regarding her and her traditions survive. Frigg is more elusive than Freya. Her primary surviving myths involve her identity as wife and mother. She battles Odin’s infidelities and actively attempts to save their doomed son, Baldur.

Frigg knows every person’s destiny but will not reveal it. She is a spinning goddess associated with the Norns: she spins the thread they weave and cut. Frigg has powerful associations with mediumship. Quieter and less flamboyant than Freya, Frigga lives in the company of masters (Odin, Freya) and manages to hold her own.

She may be particularly sympathetic to those who have suffered the unspeakable tragedy of losing a child. Frigg is petitioned for fertility.

**Favoured people:** Women; mothers

**Manifestation:** She wears a belt from which keys hang, indicating her ability to unlock all doors, as well as her oracular power.

**Attribute:** Distaff

**Element:** Water

**Constellation:** In traditional Norse cosmology, the constellation now popularly known as Orion’s belt was called Frigg’s distaff or spindle.

**Runes:** Mannaz, Pertho, Wunjo

**Bird:** Stork. (That old saw about storks delivering babies refers to Frigg.)

**Hall:** Frigg’s hall, Fensalir (“Marsh Hall”), is the after-death destination for happily married couples who can thus spend eternity together.

**See Also:** Aesir; Balder; Fates; Freya; Herta; Norns; Odin

## A Solitary Pagan

Frigg was the Viking Mother Goddess whose jewelled spinning wheel formed Orion’s belt; as patroness of marriage, women, mothers and families, she can be invoked for all rituals concerned with families and domestic happiness. She invited devoted husbands and wives to her hall after death so that they might never be parted again and so is goddess of fidelity.

As Ostara, goddess of spring, she was known among the Anglo-Saxons and is remembered in the festival of Easter as a fertility goddess and bringer of new beginnings.

In her role as Valfreya, the Lady of the Battlefield, Frigg recalls the Northern tradition of warrior goddesses and offers courage to women.

## Appearances in Modern Media

From Dawn of GodsFrom Unison LeagueFrom Age of IshtariaFrom Kamihime ProjectFrom DislyteFrom Tower of SaviorsFrom Brave FrontierFrom Force of Will
## Information Source

Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes

A Solitary Pagan