Frigg

The day of femininity, love, beauty, fertility, sovereignty.

In English, Friday comes from the Norse goddess Frigg, or some say Freya.

And in French, Vendredi.

And in Latin, Dies Veneris, which you can sort of hear the connection with Venus with the French and the Latin.

the gods.

Sensing his imminent demise, Baldr went to his mother Frigg for help, who blessed him against damage of all weapons of all materials.

The gods held a contest where they shot at Baldr with arrows who laughed as they rebounded off of him.

Loki was angered by his invincibility, and so disguised himself as a woman, and approached Frigg.

He asked if Baldr was completely invincible, and Frigg replied yes, to all things except mistletoe.

Loki immediately gathered some mistletoe, and approached

Odin's blind son, Hod.

So Thunder Thursday.

Friday in Latin related to Venus, both the planet and the goddess, which became the Germanic goddess Frigg, F-R-I-G, and Saturday from Saturn.

So that's where they all came from.

Very good.

In the vast and enchanting realms of ancient Norse myth, where mountains scrape the sky and forests whisper secrets to wandering winds, there lived a god whose beauty and kindness were as dazzling as the first light of dawn.

This was Baldr, the beloved son of Odin, the Allfather, and Frigg, the gentle and wise queen of the Aesir.

The world around him shimmered with an ethereal calm, a quiet harmony that seemed to breathe from the very earth itself.

It was a place suffused with magic and mystery, where the sky stretched endlessly above the towering halls of Asgard, and the rivers sang lullabies to the stones beneath their flow.

Wherever he walked, the air seemed warmer, the shadows less severe, and even the most restless creatures of the land found a moment's peace.

His nature was gentle, his spirit pure, and his soul filled with an unshakable goodness that made him beloved not only by gods, but also by mortals and mythical beings alike.

Balder's parents, Odin and Frigg, were strong and wise figures who guided the cosmos with a steady hand.

Odin, cloaked in mystery and knowledge, was a god who gave much for wisdom but carried a solemn tone, always gazing beyond the horizon as if reading the future in the stars.

It is the story of Baldr, the most beloved of the gods, and of how he died, and of how all the world wept for him, all but one.

Baldr was the second son of Odin, and his mother was the goddess Frigg, Odin's wife.

Of him, Snorri says, there is nothing but good to tell.

He is the best of the gods, and everyone praises him.

Unwillingly, she tells him that the mead is already brewed for Baldr in Hel's hall, and that the god Hothr will kill him.

Then she realizes who her questioner is and sends him away.

Frigg, meanwhile, went out and took oaths from everything in the world that it would not harm Baldor.

From fire and water, iron and every kind of metal, stones, the earth, trees, diseases, animals, birds, poisons and serpents.

He was preparing for it.

Beside him was Frigg, his wife, a goddess associated with marriage and foresight and the deep.

Quiet kind of knowing that does not announce itself.

Who saw the future clearly and carried the weight of that seeing without complaint? And there was Thor, their son, the thunder god, red-haired and enormous and warm-hearted in the way that very strong things sometimes are.

And I deliberately chose two gods who were not well known in the pantheon.

Lin was the handmaiden of Frigg, the wife of Odin.

Purnia was a brother of Odin, but he's hardly mentioned in the Edda.

And almost nothing is known about him.

In the midst, and high above the rest, was the wonder throne of Odin the Allfather, whence he could see everything that happened in the sky, or on earth, or in the sea.

Next they made a fair house for Queen Frigg and her lovely daughters.

Then they built a smithy, with its great hammers, tongs, anvils, and bellows, where the guards could work at their favourite trade, the making of beautiful things out of gold, which they did so well that folk named that time the Golden Age.

Afterwards, as they had more leisure, they built separate houses for all the Aesir, each more beautiful than the preceding for of course they were continually growing more skilful they saved father odin's palace until the last for they meant this to be the largest and the most splendid of all gladsheim the home of joy was the name of odin's house and it was built all of gold set in the midst of a wood whereof the trees had leaves of ruddy gold like an autumn gilded forest for the safety of all father it was surrounded by a roaring river and by a high picket fence and there was a great courtyard within The glory of Gladsham was its wondrous hall, radiant with gold, the most lovely room that time has ever seen.

"'Is that all you have? Fine gifts indeed! I was really growing uneasy, but now I see that my head is safe.' let us start for asgard immediately where i promise you that i with my three treasures shall be thrice more welcome than you with your stupid pig your ugly ring and your half-made hammer So together they climbed to Asgard, and there they found the Aesir sitting in the great judgment hall on Ida Plain.

There was Father Odin on his high throne, with his two ravens at his head and his two wolves at his feet.

There was Queen Frigg by his side, and about them were Baldr the Beautiful, Frey and Freyja, the fair brother and sister, the mighty Thor, with Sif his crop-haired wife, and all the rest of the great Aesir who lived in the upper world above the homes of men.

"'Brother Aesir,' said Loki, bowing politely, for he was a smooth rascal.