Frigg

Also known as Frigga

thumb|Frigg sits enthroned and facing the spear-wielding goddess Gná, flanked by two goddesses, one of whom ([[Fulla) carries her eski, a wooden box. Illustrated (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler.]] Frigg (, , , Old Swedish: Frigg, genitive: Friggiar, etc, Early Modern Swedish: etc; ; ; ; ; ) 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. The names ultimately stem from the Proto-Germanic theonym *Frijjō. Ne

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Frigg is a goddess in Germanic and Norse mythology who is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance, and motherhood. She is one of the Æsir (a group of gods) and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir, making her an important figure in the surviving Norse mythological texts.

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name in native language: Frigg

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Name and origin
Etymology
Origin of Frigg
Origin of ''Friday''
Attestations
''Origo Gentis Langobardorum'' and ''Historia Langobardorum''
Second Merseburg Incantation
''Poetic Edda''
''Prose Edda''
''Heimskringla'' and sagas
Archaeological record
Scholarly reception and interpretation
Modern influence
See also
Notes
References
External links

In Old High German and Old Norse sources, she is specifically connected with Fulla, but she is also associated with the goddesses Lofn, Hlín, Gná, and ambiguously with the Earth, otherwise personified as an apparently separate entity Jörð (Old Norse: 'Earth'). The children of Frigg and Odin include the gleaming god Baldr.