Frigg “The Beloved”sometimes Anglicized as “Frigga,” is the highest-ranking of the Aesir goddesses in Norse folklore...
(Aesir are warrior deities of the sky who lived in Asgard).
She’s the wife of Odin, the chief of gods, the queen of Asgar, and the mother of Baldur...
Frigg is the goddess of love and fertility as well as the patron of marriage and motherhood, and hence shares common factors with Freya...
She was known as a 'seer', one who knew the future though she could never change it...
Frigga's youth isn't spoken of in the Viking folklore, but it does mention that Frigga is first among Odin's wives and she is considered his equal and opposite in many ways...
In ancient times the end of the Winter Solstice, when the hours of sunlight began to lengthen, marked the beginning of the new year and was a time to think of new possibilities that would unfold.
Frigga was the goddess associated with the beginning of each new year.
New Year's eve, the longest night of the year, is called "Mother Night" in Northern Europe for it was in the darkness of that night that the goddess Frigga labored to give birth to Baldur who was so pleasant and 'radiant' was beloved of all the gods.
The blessing of Frigga is still invoked for birthing women with a white candle that last burned during the winter solstice being used as a charm to ensure a safe delivery...
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