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  "id": "frigg",
  "type": "entity",
  "name": "Frigg",
  "summary": "Wife of Odin and mother of Baldr, who dwells in Fensalir and weeps there for her son; she knows the fate of all though she does not speak it, counsels Odin before his journey to Vafthruthnir, and is invoked beside Freyja in the heroic lays.",
  "locale": "en",
  "tags": [
    "norse",
    "deities",
    "aesir",
    "mother-goddesses",
    "queens-of-the-gods"
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "rel": "consort_of",
      "target": "odin"
    },
    {
      "rel": "parent_of",
      "target": "baldr"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
      "target": "loki"
    },
    {
      "rel": "related",
      "target": "freyja"
    },
    {
      "rel": "member_of",
      "target": "aesir"
    },
    {
      "rel": "attested_in",
      "target": "poetic-edda"
    },
    {
      "rel": "compares",
      "target": "mother-goddesses-compared"
    }
  ],
  "questions": [
    "Who is Frigg?",
    "Is Frigg the wife of Odin?",
    "Is Frigg the mother of Baldr?",
    "Where does Frigg live?",
    "Does Frigg know the future?",
    "Are Frigg and Freyja the same goddess?"
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "text": "Frigg is Odin's wife and Baldr's mother in the poems' own words: Loki calls her \"Fjorgyn's wife\" and \"wife of Vithrir\" (Lokasenna 26), Odin is \"the joy of Frigg\" who must fall at Ragnarok (Voluspo 53), and Frigg answers Loki with \"If a son like Baldr were by me now\" (Lokasenna 27).",
      "sources": [
        "poetic-edda-bellows"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.93
    },
    {
      "id": "c2",
      "text": "Frigg mourns Baldr in her own hall: after his death \"in Fensalir did Frigg weep sore / For Valhall's need\" (Voluspo 34).",
      "sources": [
        "poetic-edda-bellows"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.95
    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "text": "Frigg has foreknowledge but keeps it: Freyja says of her, \"The fate of all does Frigg know well, / Though herself she says it not\" (Lokasenna 29).",
      "sources": [
        "poetic-edda-bellows"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.95
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "text": "Odin consults Frigg before seeking the giant Vafthruthnir; she would rather keep \"Heerfather here at home\", then blesses the journey, \"Safe mayst thou go, safe come again\" (Vafthruthnismol 1–4).",
      "sources": [
        "poetic-edda-bellows"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.93
    },
    {
      "id": "c5",
      "text": "Loki's insult against Frigg is that Odin's brothers Vili and Ve \"Both in thy bosom have lain\" (Lokasenna 26); Frigg's only reply is that old deeds should not be told (Lokasenna 25, 27).",
      "sources": [
        "poetic-edda-bellows"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.92
    },
    {
      "id": "c6",
      "text": "Frigg and Freyja are distinct goddesses in the poems and are invoked together: \"Frigg and Freyja and favoring gods\" (Oddrunargratr 8); in Lokasenna each is addressed separately (Lokasenna 26, 30).",
      "sources": [
        "poetic-edda-bellows"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.9
    }
  ],
  "takeaways": [
    "Wife of Odin and mother of Baldr, stated in Lokasenna and Voluspo rather than in any narrative.",
    "Her one scene of action in the poems is grief — weeping in Fensalir (Voluspo 34); her one attribute is silent foreknowledge (Lokasenna 29).",
    "The poems keep Frigg and Freyja apart; whatever their common origin, the texts name two goddesses."
  ],
  "faqs": [
    {
      "q": "Is Frigg the wife of Odin?",
      "claim": "c1"
    },
    {
      "q": "Where does Frigg live?",
      "claim": "c2"
    },
    {
      "q": "Does Frigg know the future?",
      "claim": "c3"
    },
    {
      "q": "Are Frigg and Freyja the same goddess?",
      "claim": "c6"
    }
  ],
  "evidence_tier": "primary",
  "evidence": {
    "level": "theoretical",
    "source_types": [
      "paper"
    ]
  },
  "moat_flag": false,
  "winning_edge": "Gives the few stanzas that actually attest Frigg in the Poetic Edda instead of the composite portrait (Baldr's oath from all things, the wager with Odin) that comes from the Prose Edda and the Grimnismol prose.",
  "confidence": 0.92,
  "last_verified": "2026-09-03",
  "media": [],
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    "myth": {
      "pantheon": "norse",
      "kind": "deity",
      "group": "aesir",
      "domains": [
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        "foreknowledge",
        "motherhood"
      ],
      "wikidata": "Q131654"
    }
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        "name": "The Poetic Edda — tr. Henry Adams Bellows (American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923), XML edition by fjarri",
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