Editing Fulla (section)

==Theories==
[[File:Frigg And Her Maidens.jpg|thumb|Fulla holds Frigg's ''eski'' in ''Frigg and Her Maidens'' (1902).]]
Andy Orchard comments that the seeming appearance of Baldr with Volla in the Merseburg Incantation is "intriguing" since Fulla is one of the three goddesses (the other two being Baldr's mother Frigg and his wife Nanna) the deceased Baldr expressly sends gifts to from Hel.{{Sfn|Orchard|1997|p=49}} [[John Lindow]] says that since the name ''Fulla'' seems to have something to do with fullness, it may also point to an association with fertility.{{Sfn|Lindow|2001|p=132}}

[[Rudolf Simek]] comments that while Snorri notes that Baldr sends Fulla a golden ring from Hel in ''Gylfaginning'', "this does not prove that she plays any role in the Baldr myth, but merely shows that Snorri associated her with gold" because of kennings used associating Fulla with gold. Simek says that since Fulla appears in the poetry of Skalds as early as the 10th century that she was likely "not a late personification of plenty" but that she is very likely identical with Volla from the Merseburg Incantation. Simek adds that it is unclear as to who Fulla actually is, and argues that she may be an independent deity or simply identical with the goddess [[Freyja]] or with Frigg.{{Sfn|Simek|1996|p=96}}

John Knight Bostock says that theories have been proposed that the Fulla may at one time have been an aspect of Frigg. As a result, this notion has resulted in theory that a similar situation may have existed between the figures of the goddesses Sinthgunt and Sunna, in that the two may have been understood as aspects of one another rather than entirely separate figures.<ref name=BOSTOCK29>Bostock (1976:29).</ref>

[[Hilda Ellis Davidson]] states that the goddesses Gefjun, [[Gerðr]], Fulla, and [[Skaði]] "may represent important goddesses of early times in the North, but little was remembered about them by the time Snorri was collecting his material." On the other hand, Davidson notes that it is also possible that these goddesses are viewable as aspects of a single [[Goddess|Great Goddess]].<ref name=DAVIDSON10>Davidson (1998:10).</ref> Davidson calls Fulla and Volla "vague, uncertain figures, emerging from odd references to goddesses which Snorri has noted in the poets, but they suggest the possibility that at one time three generations were represented among the goddesses of fertility and harvest in Scandinavia."<ref name=DAVIDSON86>Davidson (1998:86).</ref>