Frīge (Anglo-Saxon), Friia (German), or Frea (Langobard) was a love goddess in Germanic paganism, and the wife of Wōden (Odin). In English, the weekday Friday was named after her (via the Old English frigedæg, meaning the day of Frige) in analogy with Venus.

Although the name Frige is most certainly Frigg, the names Friia and Frea are closer to Freia/Freya. In the last surviving and by far best known version of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology, some believe she had split into two related goddesses, Freyja, who was married to Odr, and Frigg, who was the wife of Odin (Frigg is the Old Norse form of the name Frige, whereas Freyja is an unrelated noun which originally meant “lady”). This theory arises from the belief that Freo was indeed the same Goddess as Frige, as both have been described as Goddess of Love and sometimes as wife of Woden (West Germanic form of Odin).

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