Queen of Asgard
Frigg is the highest of the Aesir goddesses and wife of Odin, queen of Asgard and patron of marriage, motherhood, and the home. She alone is permitted to sit on Odin's high seat Hlidskjalf, from which all the worlds can be seen. Though she knows the fates of all things, she keeps her foreknowledge silent.
Her name comes from Proto-Germanic Frijjō, "beloved" or "wife," from a root meaning "to love." That same root gives Friday — "Frigg's day" — though the goddess is sometimes confused with Freya in the historical record.
Frigg's defining myth is one of grief. When her son Baldr is troubled by dreams of his own death, she travels the world extracting an oath from every thing — fire, water, metal, stone, beast, and plant — never to harm him. She overlooks only the mistletoe, thinking it too young to swear, and through that small omission Baldr is slain. Her tears for him are among the most sorrowful images in Norse myth.
Aesir queen, wife of Odin, goddess of marriage and the household, keeper of hidden fate.
Vanir goddess of love, war, and seidr magic; often confused with Frigg in later sources.
Common Questions
Are Frigg and Freya the same goddess?
In surviving myth they are distinct — Frigg is an Aesir queen, Freya a Vanir goddess — but their names and roles overlap, and many scholars suspect a shared origin.
