Get to know Frigg better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like frigga.
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Frigg meaning
The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).
Synonyms of Frigg
Using Frigg
- The main meaning on this page is: The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).
- Useful related words include: frigga, norse deity.
- In the example corpus, frigg often appears in combinations such as: frigg that, to frigg.
Context around Frigg
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Frigg
- In this selection, "frigg" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, reminds, mother, goddess, knows, explains and responds stand out and add context to how "frigg" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include frigg explains that and frigg responds that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "frigg" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with frigg
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Frigg explains that "Weapons and wood will not hurt Baldr. (10 words)
Geirröth and his older brother Agnarr had been raised by Odin and Frigg, respectively. (14 words)
It is suggested that the Pleiades are called the hens of Frigg or of Freya by Norse peoples. (18 words)
Frigg then sent her maid Fulla to Geirröth, advising him that a magician would soon enter his court to bewitch him, and saying that he could be recognised by the fact that no dog was fierce enough to attack him. (40 words)
The Winnili were fewer in number and Gambara sought help from Frea (the goddess Frigg ), who advised that all Winnili women should tie their hair in front of their faces like beards and march in line with their husbands. (39 words)
Loki reminds Frigg that he is responsible for the death of her son Baldr.sfn The goddess Freyja declares that Loki must be mad, stating that Frigg knows all fate, yet she does not speak it. (36 words)
Example sentences (14)
Loki reminds Frigg that he is responsible for the death of her son Baldr.sfn The goddess Freyja declares that Loki must be mad, stating that Frigg knows all fate, yet she does not speak it.
Despite his close connection to the gods, Loki is said to have caused the death of Odin and Frigg's son, Balder, who was loved by everyone in Asgard.
And supposedly Baldr was invincible too because Frigg had extracted an oath from every object on Earth not to harm her son.
Other names for this phobia include friggatriskaidekaphobia which originates from Norse mythology where Frigg is the Norse Goddess for Friday.
Frigg explains that "Weapons and wood will not hurt Baldr.
Frigg responds that if there was a boy like her now-deceased son Baldr in the hall, Loki would not be able to escape from the wrath of the gods.
Frigg then sent her maid Fulla to Geirröth, advising him that a magician would soon enter his court to bewitch him, and saying that he could be recognised by the fact that no dog was fierce enough to attack him.
Geirröth and his older brother Agnarr had been raised by Odin and Frigg, respectively.
High says that "highest" among them is Frigg and that only Freyja "is highest in rank next to her".
In Hliðskjálf, Odin remarked to Frigg that his foster-child Geirröth seemed to be prospering more so than her Agnarr.
It is suggested that the Pleiades are called the hens of Frigg or of Freya by Norse peoples.
Regarding Freyja, High says that, next to Frigg, Freyja is highest in rank among them and that she owns the necklace Brísingamen.
Since dreams were usually prophetic, this depressed him, so his mother Frigg made every object in every realm vow never to hurt Baldr.
The Winnili were fewer in number and Gambara sought help from Frea (the goddess Frigg ), who advised that all Winnili women should tie their hair in front of their faces like beards and march in line with their husbands.
Common combinations with frigg
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- frigg that 2×
- to frigg 2×