Frigg's handmaiden and confidante. Carries Frigg's casket.
Fulla (Old Norse Fulla) is Frigg's handmaiden and closest confidante. According to Gylfaginning 35 she carries Frigg's casket (eski), knows her secrets, and shares her counsel. Snorri describes her as a maiden with loose hair and a golden band around her forehead.
Nanna sent a finger-ring to Fulla from Hel as a gift (Gylfaginning 49), underscoring her close bond to the foremost of the Asynjur. Fulla is mentioned in the Second Merseburg Charm (as Volla), a continental Germanic source suggesting the figure had distribution beyond Scandinavia. Beyond these brief references her mythological role is limited in the surviving sources.
Sources in the Eddas
- Gylfaginning 35
- Snorri describes Fulla as Frigg's handmaiden with loose hair and a golden band.
Interpretive traditions
A What we know
Fulla is Frigg's handmaiden and carries her casket (Gylfaginning 35).
She received a gift from Nanna in Hel (Gylfaginning 49).
B What we think we know
The identification with Volla in the Second Merseburg Charm is widely accepted but not entirely certain.
C What we do not know
Fulla's possible cultic role and independent mythology are unknown.