The Frigga/Frejya Situation

[jazzflower92]

I am getting confused are Frigga and Frejya/Freya now the same person instead of just being two separate characters.

[KurtW95]

I think she was confirmed to be the same person.

[jazzflower92]

I know they retconned a lot of stuff over the years but this one is the most glaring because in canon they already did establish that Freyja/Freya was a separate character. She even has six daughters one of them being Sigyn who is the estranged wife of Loki.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Freya_(Earth-616)

[KurtW95]

I know they retconned a lot of stuff over the years but this one is the most glaring because in canon they already did establish that Freyja/Freya was a separate character. She even has six daughters one of them being Sigyn who is the estranged wife of Loki.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Freya_(Earth-616)

I think Freya and Freyja are different. And Freyja is the German equivalent of the Norse Frigga. Like Jupiter is the Roman equivalent of Zeus.

[jazzflower92]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B3lkvangr

There is a theory saying that Frigga and Freya stem from a single goddess. Although Freyja in my research has been shown to be another name for Freya. Not to mention Freya and Frigga seem to have different duties. Frigga was associated with marriage while Freyja was the goddess of love, beauty, death, and war. Freya rules over Folkvangr with the souls she collects from battle and she was associated with the Valkyries.

[KurtW95]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyja

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B3lkvangr

There is a theory saying that Frigga and Freya stem from a single goddess. Although Freyja in my research has been shown to be another name for Freya. Not to mention Freya and Frigga seem to have different duties. Frigga was associated with marriage while Freyja was the goddess of love, beauty, death, and war. Freya rules over Folkvangr with the souls she collects from battle and she was associated with the Valkyries.

Well, it's Marvel after all. And I suppose they can do things the way they want. For example, there is no lore about Odin having a secret brother named Cul.

[jazzflower92]

It still makes me wonder why they have not put Angrboda as a recurring antagonist in the comics. But that is a discussion for another day.

But this one is really a big retcon that cannot be easily ignored because it was established in the past they were separate characters. I know a lot of readers don't check up on older issues but still that is a big elephant in the room to address if people look up and found out that Freya and Frigga were not the same person at one time.

[JuanLaban]

Frigga and Freyja are now two separate individuals indeed:

Frigga - Wanton Raven-haired mead-hall Groupie who was One-night stand of Odin BEFORE he ever married

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Freyja - Chaste Blonde-haired Vanir Princess (daughter of Odin’s paternal cousin, the last Vanir King, Freyr) who was in an arranged marriage with Odin (first-time for both of them) as a peace treaty to unite the warring tribes of Vanir and Aesir into single nation

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