Contemporary statue of the goddess Frigg, adorning the Djurgården Bridge (Djurgårdsbron), in Stockholm, Sweden.
Frigg is the consort of Odin, and thus the most prominent goddess of the Germanic pantheon, who plaid the role of queen, wife and mother. According to Snorri, “she knows the fates of men though she did not disclose them” (Gylfaginning, 20). The name of the goddess derives from an Indo-European root meaning “love”, “loved” or “bride”, and for this reason she was assimilated with Venus, of whom she took the place in the denomination of the days of the week in Northern Europe (Freitag, Friday, “Frigg’s day”). In Icelandic Friggjarstjarna, lite rally “Frigg’s star” is the planet Venus. The name Frigg can be recovered in several placenames in Scandinavia, often associated with ancient cult places (Lindow 2001). In popular tradition, the figure of the goddess was substituted, with the advent of Christianity, with the Virgin Mary.

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