of-loreandlegend:Frigg Norse goddess. Odin’s wife. Mother to Baldur, stepmother to Thor. God
of-loreandlegend: Frigg Norse goddess. Odin’s wife. Mother to Baldur, stepmother to Thor. Goddess of the sky. Friggin’ great. Much like her husband Odin, Frigg is a deity associated with wisdom and foresight. She’s also sometimes associated with the earth, though it’s usually personified by a seperate entity, a giantess called Jörð (who is Thor’s mother.) In the Poetic Edda, she gets referenced in Völuspá, wherein her grief over her dead son Baldur is mentioned, as well as her grief over her husband’s inevitable death at Ragnarok. She has a bigger role in the poem Grímnismál, which is about two boys who become lost at sea and are fostered over one winter by an old couple on an island. Upon their return home, their father the king is dead and the eldest brother ( Geirröðr) is made king. Odin and Frigg, watching the worlds because they can, make a wager; Frigga bets that, yes, this guy is a terrible creature who tortures his guests, Odin says no, he can’t be. So Frigg sends her handmaiden Fulla to go and warn Geirröðr about a wandering wizard who may wish to harm him. Lo, behold, a wizard comes to his kingdom and gives his name as Grimnir (guess who he really is.) Geirröðr, because he is kind of a dick, has him tortured between two fires for 8 nights. Aaaand then Frigg is never mentioned again. Another story she has a lot of involvement in is, of course, the death of Baldur. After confiding in her his fears over his death, Frigg travels around the world and extracts a promise from every living thing in existence to never bring harm to her son. It’s no small task, but she does it because she is a Mother with a capital M. Well, everything apart from mistletoe, which she thought too young and green to be of any harm. Loki uses this to his advantage because he’s kind of a dick. But that’s not the end of it. Frigg asks of the Aesir who will go to Niflheim, the realm of the dead, and ask Hel to give her son back. Ultimately unsuccessful, it was worth a try. Frigg’s name is connected with Friday, coming from the Old English word for “Frigg’s day” which replaces the Roman day of Venus. In terms of pop culture, of course the most prominent example would be Frigga in the Marvel comics about Thor. I haven’t read the comics but I have seen the movies. Do not try to bring mythology into. Please, for your own sanity, don’t do it. Just go with it. -- source link
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