ORIGIN: Nordic [Icelandic]
TYPE: Early fertility goddess
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP: Viking period (Circa CE 700) or earlier to Christianization (Circa CE 1100)
SYNONYMS: Possibly Lord.
ART REFERENCES: None known, but probably the subject of anonymous carvings.
LITERARY SOURCES: Scant mention in various Icelandic codices. Fjorgyn is referred to by Snorri in Skaldskaparmal.
INFORMATION: Practically nothing is known about Fjorgyn, though it is suggested that she is the mother of Thor. She may therefore be lord by a different name. May also have been married to, or had a brother by the same name (Fjorgynn). She is mentioned in the Voluspa of the Poetic Edda and is probably the model for the Wagnerian character Erda.
Snorri Sturluson suggests that a god Fjorgvin (Fjorgynn) may have been the father of the god Frigg.