Frigga


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Poetic Edda

	(Othin said:)
1. "Give me rede now, Frigg, as to fare me listeth
	to wise Vafthruthnir.
   Much I wonder if in wisdom my like
	the all-wise etin be."

	(Frigg said:)
2. "At home had I Herjafather rather,
	in the garth of the gods;
   there's no match in might among thurses
	to that all-wise etin."

	(Othin said:)
3. "Far have I fared, much afield have I been,
	and striven in strength with gods;
   to view me listeth how Vafthruthnir
	lives in the high timbered hall."

	(Frigg said:)
4. "All hail to thy going!  All hail to thy coming!
	all hail to thee, hence and hither!
   May thy wit not fail thee, Father of Men,
	when with word ye war."

		- Vafthruthnismal (Hollander trans.)


One day, Othin and Frigg were sitting in Hlithskjalf and were looking out upon all the worlds. Then said Othin: "Dost thou see Agnar, thy foster son, how he begets children with an ogress in a cave? But Geirroth, my foster son, is king in the land." Frigg answered: "He is so grudging about his food that he lets his guests die of hunger when he thinks too many have come." Othin said that this was a gross lie, and so they laid a wager obout the matter. Frigg sent her chambermaid Fula to Geirroth to tell him to beware lest he be bewitched by a warlock who was then come into the land...

	     - Grimnismal prologue (Hollander trans.)


	Frigg said:
25. "[Loki], your doings ye should deeply hide,
	not tell these tidings abroad;
    what in olden times ye twain have wrought,
	keep it from ken of men."

	Loki said:
26. "Hush thee, Frigg, who art Fjorgyn's daughter:
	thou hast ever been mad after med.
    Vili and Ve thous, Vithrir's spouse,
	dids't fold to thy bosom both.

	Frigg said:
27. "Forsooth, had I in Aegir's hall
	a son as Baldr so brave:
    thou'dst not get htee gone from the gods foregathered
	before thou had'st fought for thy life."

	Loki said:
28. "Be mindful Frigg, what further I tell
	of wicked works of mine:
    my rede wrought it that rides nevermore
	hitherward Baldr to Hall."

	Freya said:
29. "Thou art raving, Loki, to reckon up
	all the ill thou hast done:
    I ween that Frigg the fates knoweth,
	thou she say it not herself."

		- Lokasenna (Hollander trans.)


Prose Edda

"The highest is Frigg. She has a dwelling called Fensalir and it is very splendid..."

		- Gylfaginning (page 29 Faulkes trans.)

There are events to be related that would have been thought more significant by the Aesir. And the beginning of this story is that Baldr the Good dreamed great dreams boding peril to his life. And when he told the Aesir the dreams, they took counsel together and it was decided to request immunity for Baldr from all kinds of danger, and Frigg received solemn promise so that Baldr could not be harmed from fire and water, iron and all kinds of metal, stones, the earth, trees, disease, the animals, the bird, poison and snakes. And when this was done and confirmed, then it became entertainment for Baldr and the Aesir that he should stand up at assemblies and all the others should either shoot at him or throw stones at him. But whatever they did, he was unharmed, and they all thought this was a great glory. But when Loki Laufeyiarson saw this he was not pleased that Baldr was unharmed. He went to Fensalir to Frigg and changed his appearance to that of a woman. Then Frigg asked this woman what the Aesir were doing at the assembly. She said that everyone was shooting at Baldr, and moreover that he was unharmed. Then said Frigg: "Weapons and wood will not hurt Baldr. I have received oaths from them all." Then the woman replied "Have all things sworn oaths not to harm Baldr?" Then Frigg replied: "There grows a shoot of a tree to the west of Val-hall. It is called mistletoe. It seemed young to me to demand the oath from".


     		- Gylfaginning (page 48 Faulkes trans.)

How shall Frigg be referred to? By calling her daughter of Fiorgyn, wife of Odin, mother of Baldr, rival of lord Rind and Gunnlod and Gerd, mother-in-law of Nanna, queen of Aesir and Asyniur, of Fulla and falcon-form and Fensalir.

		- Gylfaginning (page 86 Faulkes trans.)

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