Cult of Gods

Frigg

Norse tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
foresight, marriage, motherhood
Symbols and attributes
Hall Fensalir, a spinner's distaff in later tradition
Partner
Odin
Children
Baldr
Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.
Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Key myth

Odin's wife and mother of Baldr. In Lokasenna, Loki says she knows all fates yet tells none. After Baldr's dream of death she took oaths from everything in the world not to harm him, overlooking mistletoe.

Where sources differ or caution applies. The sources do not name her parents with confidence; Lokasenna calls her 'Fjörgyn's daughter', and Frigg's relation to Freyja is argued over by scholars.

Primary sources

  • Lokasenna 29
  • Gylfaginning 49

All sources for the Norse pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

YmirFriggBúriNjörðrÆgirRánSólBorrBestlaFreyrFreyjaSifLokiSigynHeimdallrTýrOdinHelThorBaldr

More traditions

Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianA chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.MesopotamianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Frigg: wisdom, writing and divination. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Isis

magic, protection, motherhood

Egyptian

Thoth

writing, moon, wisdom

Egyptian

Maat

truth, order, justice

Mesopotamian

Enki / Ea

fresh water, wisdom, craft

Mesopotamian

Marduk

Babylon's patron, king of the gods in the first millennium

Hindu

Varuna

cosmic order (ṛta), waters

Hindu

Vishnu

preservation, the universe's order

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