Frig

Anglo-Saxon goddess of love and marriage, cognate with Norse Frigg; chief attestation is the weekday Friday.

Domains

• love fertility
• marriage household

Powers

• Preside over love, marriage and women's fertility
• Presides over love, marriage and the bonds of the household

Relations

• spouse: WodenConsort of Woden, as Frigg is of Odinn; the pairing echoes in the weekday names.Brian Branston, The Lost Gods of England (1957) (secondary)
• equated with: FriggReciprocal of norse_frigg.equated-with — Cognates < PGmc *Frijjo 'beloved'; Frigedæg and ON Frjádagr both calque dies Veneris, showing a shared Venus-reading. OE Frig is attested almost solely through the weekday — the equation is philological.R. Simek, Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993), s.v. 'Frigg' (secondary); J. de Vries, Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte, 2nd ed. (1956-57) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Weekday 'Frīgedæg' = dies Veneris (primary); P. A. Shaw, Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World (2011) (secondary)