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In Germanic mythology, Frigg (Old Norse), Frija (Old High German), Frea (Langobardic), and Frige (Old English) is a goddess. In nearly all sources she is described as the wife of the god Odin. In Old High German and Old Norse sources, she is also connected with the goddess Fulla. The English weekday name Friday (etymologically Old English "Frīge's day") bears her name. In Norse mythology, the northernmost branch of Germanic mythology and most extensively attested, Frigg is described as a goddess associated with foreknowledge and wisdom. Frigg is the wife of the major god Odin and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir, is famous for her foreknowledge, is associated with the goddesses Fulla, Lofn, Hlín, and Gná, and is ambiguously associated with the Earth, otherwise personified as an apparently separate entity, Jörð (Old Norse "Earth"). The children of Frigg and Odin include the gleaming god Baldr. Due to significant thematic overlap, scholars have proposed a particular connection to the goddess Freyja. After Christianization, mention of Frigg continued to occur in Scandinavian folklore. In modern times, Frigg has appeared in modern popular culture, has been the subject of art, and receives modern veneration in Germanic Neopaganism. ==Etymology, ''Friday'', and toponymy== The theonyms ''Frigg'' (Old Norse) and ''Frija'' (Old High German) are cognate forms—linguistic siblings of the same origin—that descend from a substantivized feminine of Proto-Germanic *''frijaz'' (via Holtzmann's law). *''frijaz'' descends from the same source (Proto-Indo-European) as the feminine Sanskrit noun ''priyā'' and the feminine Avestan noun ''fryā'' (both meaning "own, dear, beloved"). In the modern period, an -a suffix is sometimes applied to denote femininity, resulting in the form ''Frigga''.〔See for example .〕 This spelling also serves the purpose of distancing the goddess from the English word ''frig''. The connection with and possible earlier identification of the goddess Freyja with Frigg in the Proto-Germanic period (Frigg and Freyja origin hypothesis) is a matter of scholarly debate. Like the name of the group of gods to which Freyja belongs, the Vanir, the name ''Freyja'' is not attested outside of Scandinavia. This is in contrast to the name of the goddess ''Frigg'', who is attested as a goddess common among the Germanic peoples, and whose name is reconstructed as Proto-Germanic *''Frijjō''. Evidence for the existence of a common Germanic goddess from which Old Norse ''Freyja'' descends does not exist, but scholars have commented that this may simply be due to the scarcity of surviving sources. Regarding a Freyja-Frigg common origin hypothesis, scholar Stephan Grundy comments that "the problem of whether Frigg or Freyja may have been a single goddess originally is a difficult one, made more so by the scantiness of pre-Viking Age references to Germanic goddesses, and the diverse quality of the sources. The best that can be done is to survey the arguments for and against their identity, and to see how well each can be supported." The English weekday name ''Friday'' comes from Old English "Frīge's Day" and is cognate with Old High German ''frîatac''. Both weekday names are result of ''interpretatio germanica'' that occurred at or before the 3rd or 4th century CE, glossing the Latin weekday name ''dies Veneris'' 'Day of Venus'. Several place names in what are now Norway and Sweden refer to Frigg, although her name is altogether absent in recorded place names in Denmark. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frigg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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