Frigg

deity sky Norse single tradition · 13

Frigg is a Norse goddess who knows the fate of everyone but does not tell it. She is defended by Freyja when Loki accuses her during the flyting at Ægir's celebration.

↻ synthesized from 13 sources

When

First attested
500 BCE
Attested period
-500 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested in the Old Norse Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna.

Relationships

allied with
Freyja, Balder, Phol
enemy of
Loki
consort of
Odin, Oðinn
parent of
Thor, Baldr
served by
Fulla, Lofn, Hlín, Gná
child of
Fjörgynn
has aspect
Fulla

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Sources

Source passages

“next to Frigg, Freyja is highest in rank among them”

#12632 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Odin would attribute it to Frigg in an attempt to shroud her accomplishments under the Aesir banner. In the universe of Marvel Comics, Frigga, the adopted mother of Thor”

#15155 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Grundy theorizes that the goddesses Frigg and Freyja did not stem from a single goddess... it very possible that Odin/Óðr originally 'could have rejoiced in Frigg and Freyja simultaneously'.”

#15224 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Just as Norse Freyja is usually interpreted as a hypostasis of *Frijjō (Frigg), Norse Freyr is associated with Ingwaz (Yngvi) based on the Ynglingasaga which names Yngvi-Freyr as the ancestor of the kings of Sweden, which as Common Germanic *Ingwia-fraujaz would have designated the "lord of the Ingvaeones”

#26153 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Dís Freyja Frigg”

#26184 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001