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Frigg
Frigg EuropeIn Germanic mythology, the wife of Odin, and the mother of the gods. A fertility goddess, who ‘will tell no fortunes, yet well she knows the fates’, Frigg must have come north before the vanir and in this movement lost the active aspects of her divinity. When Balder dreamed of impending harm, Frigg extracted a promise from all created things except the mistletoe that no harm should befall her son. Otherwise Frigg tended to be a rather passive deity: she knew the future but had no power to affect it.
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