#frige

[grimnirs-child]

Masterpost: Frīg's Handmaidens Project

Who are the Handmaidens?

In the Prose Edda, twelve Goddesses are listed after Frigga as Ásynjur: Fulla, Gefjon, Hlín, Syn, Eir, Sága, Gná, Vár or Vór, Snotra, Vör, Lofn and Sjöfn. Modern Heathens sometimes refer to Them as Frigga's Handmaidens. (This is a piece of shared gnosis, not an historically attested term.) For many of the Twelve, this is all that survives in the way of attestations.

What is the Project?

Gradually over several years, and more intentionally recently, I have been building a devotional cultus around these Goddesses. As part of that, I've been putting together primers on each of the Twelve on my longform blog -- detailing Their surviving attestations, Old English God-names and epithets for Them, my own personal experiences and upg, a prayer, and devotional icon art -- as well as essays and modern myths exploring other aspects of Them and my cultus to Them.

Although I use Old English names for Them and honour Them in a syncretic heathen practice drawing on influences from across the British and Irish Isles, I hope these may be useful and/or interesting for practitioners working in a Norse, Continental, or other context. Or for anyone worshipping and building cultus to lesser-known and lesser-attested Gods!

I will update this post periodically, but if you like you can subscribe to my longform Wordpress blog for updates when I post.

Primers

Fulla

Geofen (Gefjon)

Hlēowen (Hlin)

Ār (Eir)

Saga

Lofen & Siofen (Lofn & Sjöfn)

Wearn, or Syn (Syn)

Essays and other posts

Introduction to the Project

Essay on abundance, ānanda, and Fulla

Essay on Frīg and Her importance to my cosmology

The Wren and her sister: a myth of Frīg feat. Ār and Gnæ

Essay on marriage as initiation, feat. Lofen, Siofen and Āþ

[hesy-bes]

O’ Great Spinning Goddess,

Queen of Osgeard,

I call to you.

Spin my soul on your distaff,

weave my woes from my heart,

straighten the string of my being,

She who Rules over All,

rule over the relationships of my heart,

guide my goings into love,

and bring me fruitfulness in this field.

[theherbwitchshoppe]

An Altar Tile for Frige. Frige is an Anglo Saxon Goddess of the Hearth and an important deity in my home. The Altar Tile has been posted on my website!

www.theherbwitchshoppe.com

[whatyoulookingat4eyes]

[seaxwulf]

Frīja Britannia

A drawing of my favourite Goddess, queen of the British Isles: Frīge, or Frīja. See also:

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[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

Am lămurit și problema cu vremea 🎉

[burningreactor]

at such moments, no need to say anything, but just cast a mysterious glance with your Dahmer mug

[seariii]

A mimir (baby version of dormir which is sleep in spanish)

... or try to

[cieric-of-chaos]

Why are people who claims to be Wanda fans?Excited about Wanda being in the what if show?? Do you all even actually care about her character? Like y'all are celebrating for the bare minimum?

Like come on I get it that we miss her but please they are probably gonna do something horrible with her character and make people hate her even more please I am tired of seeing 'those' people shit on Wanda's character even more yes I know the writing with her is horrible but please I am tired

Like the dudebros are gonna be doing those stupid power scaling and Wanda's so called fans(?) Are gonna say something dumb and the scarlet witch fandom are gonna get shit on again

M.o.M ruin her and they're gonna need an Actual good writer and director to bring her back

[descendantofthesparrow]

me; hitting my phone

FUCKING CHARGE G'DAMMIT

[theherbwitchshoppe]

Hail to Frige! Hail to the Goddess of the Hearth!

[obsesiveblue]

Doodles at work I don't have time to do that but it was an unusual window of opportunity.... I took it . No regrets. ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ

[troycattribunny]

"Why do you wanna play lockstins fakemon region so bad"

I, too, am 19 and wanna destroy Jeff Bezos!!!

[surskip]

By the way if you make the cookies from the recipe can you show me

[unfortunately-obsessed]

I watched The Flash (2023) and it was so bad and Bruce was so badly written ugh

It was funny tho, I was mad laughing