Frige

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Frige (Anglo-Saxon), Friia (German) 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, some believe 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"). However it should be said that 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). However there are contradictions to this, amongst others it seems that whereas Frige's element was real love, Freo's was erotic love. And so it can be assumed that Freo may have been either another aspect of Frige or a different deity altogether. Making it hard to determine whether Frige was split into Frigg and Freyja or whether the separate Goddess, Freo was given some of Frige's attributes. [[1]]