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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 231 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FRIGG , the wife of the See also:

GOD

god See also:

ODIN, or OTHIN (O. Norse 66inn)

Odin (See also:

WODEN

Woden) in See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology . She"was known also to other See also:

Teutonic peoples both on the See also:

CONTINENT (from Lat. continere, "to hold together "; hence " connected," " continuous ")

continent (0 . H . Ger . Friia, Langobardic Frea) and in See also:

England, where her name still survives in See also:

FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday (O.E . Frigedeeg) . She is often wrongly identified with See also:

FREYIA

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