Fulla

Fulla is attested in medieval Germanic texts rather than a single coherent origin narrative. In Old Norse prose contexts (Poetic Edda prose introduction to Grímnismál; Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Gylfaginning/Skáldskaparmál) she appears as one of the ásynjur who serves Frigg and acts as her confidante. In the Old High German Merseburg Incantation (the 'horse cure') Volla appears as a named singer who, with Friia/Frigg and other figures, aids in healing an injured foal. The sources do not provide a creation or birth myth for Fulla; rather, she appears embedded in the household of Frigg and in ritual-charm tradition.

Primary descriptions are limited: Snorri's Gylfaginning describes Fulla as a virgin who lets her hair flow and wears a gold band around her head. Poetic diction supplies a kenning-like association with gold (e.g., terms such as 'Fulla's snood' used poetically for gold). No further physical or iconographic attributes are preserved in the supplied texts.

The surviving sources record particular roles and actions rather than a catalogue of supernatural powers. Fulla functions as Frigg's attendant who tends Frigg's eski (box) and footwear and is a confidante in whom Frigg 'confides secrets' (Prose Edda, Gylfaginning). In the Poetic Edda prose introduction to Grímnismál she is sent by Frigg to warn the human king Geirröðr of an impending visit and advises a test for detecting the disguised visitor. In the Old High German Merseburg Incantation Volla ('her sister' to Friia) 'sang charms' as part of a sequence of named singers effecting the healing of Balder's foal. Beyond these attestations the sources do not ascribe additional powers such as broad fertility magic or world-altering abilities; etymology connects her name to 'fullness' or 'plenitude', which scholars note as suggestive but not conclusive evidence of a fertility aspect.