Frigg
August 24, 2009
Faithful wife, caring mother, stalwart female head of the Aesir gods.
Overprotective super hag.
Frigg is the picture of wisdom and long-standing stalwart companionship. Bolstering her husband, Odin, and crossing the globe to convince everything in the world not to her poor doomed son, Baldr.
These are not the actions of a sane person. These are not virtues that you should wish instilled in yourself or people you know. These are the actions of a person who was never so much there.
Historically Frigg was a giantess, one of several that found time to get it on with the Aesir and form offspring. Thor, Baldr, Hodr, Heimdall… all children of the giantess. But history also questions whether or not Frigg existed separately from Freyja or if they were regional variants on the same mother/nurturer/hearth goddess theme.
Perhaps the answer is simpler then that. Maybe she’s just a poor imitation of Freyja. A poor puppet brought to life to serve a purpose for Odin that another could not, or would not.
History is a mired and troubled thing. It gives us answers but only to bad questions. Imprecise assumptions, a mirror that shows only what we bring to it and holds no notion of truth.
Frigg may have been any of these things and none of these things. Perhaps the veil of time will be parted at length, perhaps we will learn the truth to these matters.
I hope we are prepared for the answers.
