Frigg was the goddess of motherhood and marriage in Norse mythology. She was the wife of Odin and the mother of Baldr, god of light; Hod, the blind god of darkness and winter; and Hermod the Nimble, the messenger of the gods. She was called upon during childbirth and when the naming of children as well. She was called the "weeping goddess" because she mourned the death of her son Baldr.http://users.dickinson.edu/~eddyb/mythology/Gods-8.html

In Asgard, Frigg had a hall called Fensalir. She had a messanger and a handmaiden, Gna, who rode on a horse called Hofvarpnir, which means "hoof-thrower". Although she was the goddess of marriage, in some myths she had love affairs with Odin's brothers Ve and Vili. She had the ability to see peoples' destinies, including her own son Baldr's, but she did not reveal them.http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/norse/articles.html

Frigg loved her son Baldr, but she had a vision that he would die young. In order to make sure that he would not die young, she went around the world getting all things to take an oath that they would not hurt Baldr, including elements, animals, minerals and plants. The one thing that she did not get an oath from was the plant mistletoe, because she felt it was too small to hurt him. Loki, jealous of Baldr, found this out and made a dart from mistletoe. He tricked Baldr's brother Hod into throwing it at him and it killed him.http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/norse/articles.html

The myth Saga of the Volsungs was one of the sources for the Wagner opera The Ring of the Nibelung. In it, Rerir, the son of Sigi and grandson of Odin, prayed to Frigg for a child. His wife gave birth to Volsung, who in turn fathered Signy and Sigmund. Sigmund eventually died fighting, but fathered Siegfried, who eventually slayed the dragon Fafner.http://www.languages.ttu.edu/courses/Germ3313/16%20Volsunga%20saga.ppt