Frige

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Frige (Anglo-Saxon, Friia (Germany) or Frea (Langobard)) was the love goddess of Germanic mythology, and the wife of Wotan (Odin). She has given her name to the weekday Friday (via the Old English frigedæg, meaning the day of Frige) in analogy with Venus. In the last surviving and by far best known version of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology, she had split into two clearly related goddesses, the promiscuous Freyja, who was married to Odr, and the sometimes unfaithful 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").Template:Euro-myth-stub