Frija
Continental Germanic · deity · continental germanic migration and conversion (4th–10th c.) · Recorded classification
FREA IS AN ALIAS AND NOT A SECOND RECORD, on the same reasoning as Godan. In the Lombard story she is the one who has the idea and her husband is the one who is caught by it, which is worth recording as what the source says rather than as a note about a goddess of marriage.
Domains
- healing charms
Relations
- sibling: VollaReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment: 'and Frija, Volla's sister, conjured it'. (secondary)
- consort of: WodanReciprocated in-batch with the same kind.Reference treatment of the Origo gentis Langobardorum: Frea advises the women and Godan grants the victory. (secondary)
- advised: GambaraIn-batch.Reference treatment: Gambara appeals to Frea on behalf of her sons, who led the emigration. (secondary)
Sources
- Frija is the goddess of the Second Merseburg Incantation, Volla's sister, and the Frea of the Lombard origin legend who outwits Godan to name the Lombards.: Reference treatments of the Merseburg charms and of the Origo gentis Langobardorum. (secondary)