Frigg
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also known as Frigga, Frija and Fricka, in Germanic mythology, was the daughter of Fjorgyn, goddess of the earth and atmosphere, wife of Odin, the chief of the gods, and mother of Balder. She has given her name to Friday. Frigg was a fertility goddess who 'will tell no fortunes, yet well she knows the fates'. When Balder dreamed of impending danger, Frigg extracted a promise from each and every thing, except the mistletoe, that no harm should happen to him. Apparently, the mistletoe appeared such a harmless plant that she did not bother about it. This proved to be a mistake because the fire god Loki got the blind god Hodr to throw a branch of mistletoe at Balder which killed him. Frigg's subsequent effort to have her son released from the land of the dead also failed, because Loki refused to mourn on behalf of Balder. Thus it would seem that Frigg was a fertility goddess not unlike the Sumerian deity Inanna, though she lacked that goddess ability to enter the netherworld.
Frigg has much in common with Freyja. Although her role as consort of Odin shows her to be a devoted wife and mother, she too possesses a falcon skin and has a great passion of gold. It is quite possible that the two goddesses had their origins in a single earth-mother deity.