Fulla- Germanic GodDeity
Also known as: Volla
Description
She carries the chief goddess's casket, tends her footwear, and knows her innermost secrets. Fulla is Frija's most trusted confidante. In the Second Merseburg Charm, she sings healing magic alongside Wodan and Frija over Balder's lame horse, named in the same breath as the highest gods.
Mythology & Lore
The Merseburg Charm
The Second Merseburg Charm, an Old High German healing incantation older than its ninth-century manuscript, names Fulla as Volla and places her among the gods. The charm tells its own story before it heals: Phol and Wodan rode to the woods. There Balder's foal sprained its foot. Then Sinthgunt sang over it, and Sunna her sister; then Frija sang over it, and Volla her sister; then Wodan sang over it, as he well could.
Volla sings alongside Wodan and Frija, paired with the chief goddess as her "sister." Whether the charm means sister by blood or by bond, Fulla stands in the company of the highest powers in the Continental Germanic tradition.
Keeper of the Casket
Snorri describes Fulla as a virgin goddess who wears her hair loose with a golden band around her head. She carries Frigg's casket, tends her footwear, and shares in her secret counsels. The casket marks the position: she keeps the chief goddess's most private possessions.
In the Grímnismál, Frigg sends Fulla as her messenger to warn a mortal man, the only time Fulla acts independently in the surviving sources. When Baldr's wife Nanna sent gifts back from Hel, she sent a linen robe specifically to Fulla. The bond among Frigg's inner circle held even past death.
Relationships
- Equivalent to