Frigg Blot

 

About Frigg

Frigg is said to be the wife of Odin, and is the “foremost among the goddesses”. She appears primarily in stories as a wife and a mother. She is also described as having the power of prophecy yet she does not reveal what she knows. And Frigg is the only one other than Odin who is permitted to sit on his high seat Hlidskjalf and look out over the universe.

Frigg also participates in the Wild Hunt (Asgardreid) along with her husband. Frigg’s children are

• Baldr,
• Höðr and, in an English source
• Wecta;

Her stepchildren are

• Hermóðr,
• Heimdall,
• Tyr,
• Vidar,
• Váli, and
• Skjoldr.

Thor is either her brother or a stepson. Frigg’s companion is Eir, the gods’ doctor and goddess of healing. Frigg’s attendants are Hlín, Gná, and Fulla.

edited from Wikipedia [n]

Invocation to Frigg

Lady Frigg, most magnificent!

Asgard’s Queen, in your cloak of stars:

We call to you: Be with us now!

Send your mighty maidens to us:

Swift Gna, bringing grace and good fortune;

Golden Fulla with her overflowing gifts;

Gentle Hlin, giving comfort and strong warding

Against all grief, despair and evil

That assail the heart.

Teach us your wisdom, Mother,

To order our lives, homes and folkways rightly,

For the good of all,

And to reflect your grace and brightness.

–Winifred Hodge

Round of Toasts

Frigg I toast, Lady All-Holy,

Odin’s loved companion, wonder-working queen!

Shining lady, splendid queen,

Blessed in triumph, binding folk together.

Lover of your people, lady bright-minded,

Bridler of kin-strife, bourne of kin-mindfulness.

Protector and peaceweaver, friendly goddess:

Your blessing give us, to babies and brave men,

Mother kind, of mind most excellent.

Great-hearted queen, holding secret counsel

With god-loving soothsayers; to the wise-minded

Giving rede and wisdom, discretion and prudence.

Key-keeper mighty, in your starry cape,

Silver adorned, shining heaven’s queen!

Bid us blithely together

To your benches at Fen-Hall sitting;

Offer us the cup of frith and happiness,

Frigg, Queen beloved!

Frigg, my beloved.

Taken from Frigga’s web[n]

Libation

     Odin Blot

 About Odin

Odin is considered the chief god in Norse paganism. His role, like many of the Norse pantheon, is complex. He is a associated with wisdom, war, battle and death and also magic, poetry, prophecy, victory and the hunt. He brought us the runes, by hanging on the Tree Yggdrasil. The death of his son, Baldr, is one of the signs of Ragnarok.

Odin is one of the most written about gods in Norse literature.

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Invocation to Odin

Said by Gothi/Gythia

Odin All-Father,

Far-Wandering Windwalker,

Tamer of Hatred and Wearer of Ravens,

We call on You now.

Grant us the wisdom and insight

To work with our Fate and not against it,

To weave fridd and not fray it,

To stand fast and not fall.

Cloud-high our courage rises:

Let us ride our Fate with the grace of Ravens.

Grey-Cloaked Sage of Shifting Shapes,

All-Seeing Eye of Magic’s Might,

Set Your shield upon us as a pledge

That we may strive, and flourish, and fly,

And feast with You in Valhalla

When the last wind settles in the west.

Taken from Circle Network News #70

Toasts

Gothi/Gythia pass around horn, each person making their toast.

Libation

Said by Gothi/Gythia

We hail you, Wodan, in all your guises —

Wanderer, Wish-God, great giver of Wod,

Be you Allfather, Valfather, worker of Bale,

Strife-stirrer, Svipall, or Bileyg called,

Helm-bearer, Wild Hunt’s Leader, or Grimnir,

By all your heitir you have my hails —

Great are your Gifts, Great are your ways,

and we stand tall in that which We’ve gained.

We offer you this sacrifice, so that you may bless us with your strength, your wisdom, and your knowledge.

Hail Odin!