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My inspiration - Jeanette Cederstrom Karlsson. She and Micke were kind enough to allow me to use their photography. Thank you both so much!
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In Norse mythology, Frigg or Frigga was said to be "foremost among the goddesses". She is a goddess of marriage, motherhood, fertility, love, household management, and domestic arts. She has the power of
prophecy although She does not tell what She knows. Frigg's name means "love" or "beloved one" and was
known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time.
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Balder's mother so loved her son that she exacted a promise from all things never to harm him. Only the
parasitic mistletoe did not take a vow. Loki, the trickster god, gave a spear made of mistletoe to Balder's
blind brother Hod and helped him aim it at his "invulnerable" brother. Balder was killed. Frigg's tears became the berries of mistletoe. When Balder was restored to life, Frigg made mistletoe a symbol of love.
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The goddess, Frigg, too late to extract a promise of innocence from the mistletoe and unable to destroy it
because of an oath she demanded that it remain off the ground and be dependent upon other trees, a parasite, where it would do no harm. On the third day after Balder’s death, Frigg was sitting under the tree where the mistletoe grew. She was holding her son close, while the tears dropped from her eyes. Some of the tears dropped onto the mistletoe arrow still in Balder's heart. The teardrops changed into small white berries on the Mistletoe. The berries negated the deadly poisonous effect and Balder was brought back to life! Frigg was so happy that she started kissing everyone who passed under the tree where the mistletoe grew and went on to promise that anyone who stood under the mistletoe would never come to any harm, they would receive a token of love instead...a kiss. {[link] }

Description
My inspiration - Jeanette Cederstrom Karlsson. She and Micke were kind enough to allow me to use their photography. Thank you both so much!
Photo link [link]

In Norse mythology, Frigg or Frigga was said to be "foremost among the goddesses". She is a goddess of marriage, motherhood, fertility, love, household management, and domestic arts. She has the power of
prophecy although She does not tell what She knows. Frigg's name means "love" or "beloved one" and was
known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time.
{[link] }
Balder's mother so loved her son that she exacted a promise from all things never to harm him. Only the
parasitic mistletoe did not take a vow. Loki, the trickster god, gave a spear made of mistletoe to Balder's
blind brother Hod and helped him aim it at his "invulnerable" brother. Balder was killed. Frigg's tears became the berries of mistletoe. When Balder was restored to life, Frigg made mistletoe a symbol of love.
{[link] }
The goddess, Frigg, too late to extract a promise of innocence from the mistletoe and unable to destroy it
because of an oath she demanded that it remain off the ground and be dependent upon other trees, a parasite, where it would do no harm. On the third day after Balder’s death, Frigg was sitting under the tree where the mistletoe grew. She was holding her son close, while the tears dropped from her eyes. Some of the tears dropped onto the mistletoe arrow still in Balder's heart. The teardrops changed into small white berries on the Mistletoe. The berries negated the deadly poisonous effect and Balder was brought back to life! Frigg was so happy that she started kissing everyone who passed under the tree where the mistletoe grew and went on to promise that anyone who stood under the mistletoe would never come to any harm, they would receive a token of love instead...a kiss. {[link] }