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FRIGG, the wife of the god Odin (Woden) in northern mythology, was known also to other Teutonic peoples (O.H. Ger. Friia, Langobardic Frea) ; in English her name still sur vives in Friday (O.E. Frigedaeg). (See TEUTONIC PEOPLES, ad fin.)