Pantheon--The Norse by Morgan Daimler

Author:Morgan Daimler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2022-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Fulla

Fulla is described by Snorri as Frigga’s handmaiden and one of the Aesir. Snorri describes her a maiden with long, loose hair and a golden headband and says she keeps some of Frigga’s personal possessions. She may be identical to Volla found in some Anglo-Saxon lore.

Gefjon

Gefjon, also spelled Gefjun or Gefion, is listed among the Aesir in the Prose Edda. In the Heimskringla we are told that Gefjon had four sons with a Jotun, all of whom had the form of oxen. The Prose Edda tells us that when she travelled to Sweden the king there offered her as much land as she could claim by plowing with a team of oxen in 24 hours in exchange for her sexual favors; Gefjon agreed but brought her four oxen from Jotunheim to plow the land, the implication being that the oxen were her sons. According to both sources they plowed so fast and deep that they separated nearly 3,000 square miles from the mainland creating a lake in Sweden and the island of Saelland which they dragged to Denmark.

In the Prose Edda, Gefjon is said to be a virgin deity who all women who die maidens go to after death. While the idea that maidens go to her when they die may be true, the assertion that Gefjon herself is a virgin is contradicted in the Poetic Edda and Heimskringla which both claim Gefjon was either married or had a lover. In the Lokasenna in the Poetic Edda when Loki challenges Gefjon he accuses her of trading her sexual favours to a young man for a necklace24; the Heimskringla says not only that she had the four aforementioned sons with a Jotun but also that she was married to an obscure son of Odin named Skjöldr.

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