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  2. Frigg - Wikipedia

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    Frigg is first mentioned in the Prose Edda Prologue, wherein a euhemerized account of the Norse gods is provided. The author describes Frigg as the wife of Odin, and, in a case of folk etymology, the author attempts to associate the name Frigg with the Latin-influenced form Frigida. [24]

  3. List of Kuruluş: Osman characters - Wikipedia

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    Later, converts to Christianity to the displeasure of Frigg. Captures the Inegöl Castle from Osman. He is beheaded by Osman after the reconquest of Inegol in front of Nayman. İpek Karapınar as Frigg: A member of the Norsemen fighters and Olof's wife. Deadly and vicious towards her opponents, she starts to spy on Osman and his people ...

  4. Frigg and Freyja common origin hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    It has also been suggested that the names Freyja and Frigg may stem from a common linguistic source. [3] This theory, however, is rejected by most linguists in the field, who interpret the name Frigg as related to the Proto-Germanic verb *frijōn ('to love') and stemming from a substantivized feminine of the adjective *frijaz ('free'), [4] [5] whereas Freyja is regarded as descending from a ...

  5. *Frijjō - Wikipedia

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    The name *Frijjō (Old Norse Frigg, Old High German Frīja) ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *prih-y(a)h, cognate to Sanskrit priya "dear, beloved". [1] [2] However, in the Germanic languages, the word's meaning split into two etymons: one related to the semantic field of "love, courtship, friendship" (English friend), whereas the other to the field of "freedom" (English free).

  6. Gambara (seeress) - Wikipedia

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    Frigg's deceptiveness and connection with prophecy normally belong to Freyja, and her association with magic (seiðr). There is also the similarity that Frigg means 'love', but Freyja was the goddess of Love, and the day Friday ('Venus' day') was translated as Frigg's day and not as Freyja's day.

  7. Freyja - Wikipedia

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    Regarding a Freyja-Frigg common origin hypothesis, scholar Stephan Grundy comments, "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 ...

  8. Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn - Wikipedia

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    The masculine form Fjörgynn is portrayed as the father of the goddess Frigg, the wife of Odin. [1] Both names appear in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. A number of theories surround the names and they have been the subject of ...

  9. Nanna (Norse deity) - Wikipedia

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    Sent by Baldr's mother, the goddess Frigg, the god Hermóðr rides to the place Hel to resurrect Baldr. Hermóðr finally arrives in Hel to find Baldr in a hall, seated in the seat of honor and with his wife Nanna. Hermóðr bargains with the goddess Hel for Baldr's resurrection.