Fulla
Fulla is one of the Ásynjur and Frigg's closest attendant: Gylfaginning 35 says she wears her hair loose with a golden ribbon, carries Frigg's casket, looks after her shoes and knows all her secrets.
Fulla is a handmaiden goddess with no cult and no narrative beyond her office; the Merseburg charm's Volla is a cognate name, not a text about the Norse Fulla, and equating the two is a reasonable inference rather than an attested identity. No native Norse planetary rulership exists: the planetary, zodiac, tarot and sabbat correspondences here are a modern Western overlay (at most the interpretatio romana and weekday readings, Mercury=Odinn, Jupiter=Thor, Mars=Tyr, Venus=Freyja/Frigg, Sun=Sol, Moon=Mani), and the Eddas' own account is primary.
Correspondences
- Planetary Correspondence
- Moon
Offerings
- Offerings
- MilkMeadBreadA secret keptA service done without credit
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- VollaFyllaFrigg's Handmaiden
- Gender Expression
- Feminine
- Titles
- Frigg's HandmaidenKeeper of the CasketBearer of the ShoesKeeper of Secrets
- Symbols
- CasketShoesGolden ribbonLoose hair
Practice
- Invocation Approach
- ToneQuiet and loyalAddressFullaFrigg's HandmaidenKeeper of the CasketRelationshipThe friend who carries what you cannot put downWarningHer loyalty is to Frigg first she keeps secrets she does not trade themResonanceConfidants carers those who serve without being seen
- Modern Practice
Fulla is called for the work of the trusted second — keeping a confidence, carrying another's burden, serving without needing to be seen. The practice is discretion: what is told to you is not yours to spend.
Nature and meaning
- Domain
- ServiceCounselSecretsThe casketThe shoeDevotionThe trusted friend
- Mythology Summary
Fulla is one of the Ásynjur and Frigg's closest attendant: Gylfaginning 35 says she wears her hair loose with a golden ribbon, carries Frigg's casket, looks after her shoes and knows all her secrets. The Old High German Second Merseburg Charm names Volla among the sisters around Frija, which is the only other early attestation and shows that a cognate figure was known outside Scandinavia. She has no story of her own in the Eddas.
Details
- Correspondences
- ColorsWhiteSilverBlueScentsLavenderRoseFrankincense boswellia sacraMetalsSilverTinAnimalsSwanGoose
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