Queen of the gods, goddess of marriage, home, and prophecy
Odin’s wife, queen of Asgard. She can foresee every fate, yet keeps silent and never tells. As a mother her care for her beloved son Baldr borders on obsession — she made all things swear not to harm him, and overlooked only one seemingly frail sprig of mistletoe, an oversight that in the end brought about the deepest tragedy in Norse myth.
When Baldr foresaw death drawing near, Frigg walked all nine worlds, making fire, sickness, metal, stone, and every beast and bird swear one by one never to harm her son. She thought the mistletoe too young and frail to trouble with — and it was that single lapse of thought that Loki seized upon, turning it into the fatal stroke against Baldr.
Some scholarship holds that Frigg and the Vanir goddess Freyja may derive from a single older goddess who later split into two; this site lists them separately, following the Edda text.
Below are how modern works borrow or reinterpret this name or story — not the original material. The two differ, so keep them apart.