FRIGGA
Goddess Of Love
"Hail Frigga The nurturing Mother
Who bears the promise of new birth "The Havamal 77
Frigga was the goddess of love, marriage, and destiny. She was the wife of the powerful Norse god Odin. A sky goddess, responsible for weaving the clouds (and therefore for sunshine and rain and the fertility of the crops).
Frigga had the ability to see into the future, although not the power to change it, this dilemma is shown in the most popular story told about her:
A loving mother, Frigga's ability to see into the future caused her great pain as she foresaw the death of her beloved son, Baldur. Even though she knew that she could not change his destiny, she simply couldn't just sit by and watch.
The frantic goddess extracted a promise from all living things on, or under the earth, that they would play no role in his death. Unfortunately she overlooked one thing, the mistletoe plant which grew neither on the earth or under it, but only on apple and oak trees and which seemed too insignificant to approach.
Forgetting the mistletoe was the unraveling of her plan. For when the malevolent trickster Loki discovered her oversight, he made an arrow tip of the poisonous plant and, in a cruel trick, placed it in the hand of Baldur's blind brother Hodor who was the God of Winter, and offered to guide his hand while teaching him to shoot .
And so he did, guiding the arrow directly into Baldur's heart, striking him dead. Frigga's tears of mourning were so bounteous that the hapless plant that had caused his death took pity. From then on it would bear milky white berries that were formed from her tears.
In some versions of the myth, the story of Baldur ends happily. He is brought back to life, and the Nordic goddess Frigga is so grateful that she reverses a curse she had placed on "the baleful plant", changing it to a symbol of peace and love and promising a kiss to all who passed under it.