What is the basis of the statement that Frigg was a worker in textiles?
Good question. There aren’t any passages in the Sagas or Eddas that actually describe Frigg in the process of spinning or weaving, but she seems to be closely associated with these activities in folklore and in romantic era depictions. (The painting on the title page of the Germanic Goddesses site is of Frigg spinning the clouds, and there is another on the Volsung Saga link from the Frigg page that shows her holding up a distaff with sheep at her feet.) The main piece of ‘hard evidence’ usually cited in descriptions of Frigg as spinner is that the stars that form Orion’s belt are known as Friggerock, Frigg’s Distaff, in parts of Sweden. I’ve read versions of the folktale ‘The Gift of Flax’ (which appears under the Holda entry on the Germanic Goddesses page) in which the flax-giving goddess is said to be Frigg, rather than Holda. In Roles of the Northern Goddess H.R.E. Davidson states that “In Blekinge there was a custom of not spinning on Thursdays, as that was when Frigg’s spinning w
