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FRIKKA. FROUWA. 301
express the same relation. Saxo Gram., p. 13, has correctly
Frigga Othini conjux . In prayers the two goddesses even stand
side by side : sva hialpi ther hollar vsettir, Frigg ok Freyja, ok
fleiri go$ (more gods), sem jm feldir mer far af hondom ! Ssem.
240 b . So they do at the burning of Baldr s body, Sn. 66, conf. 37.
And that Danish folk-song has likewise Frigge, Fru og Thor .
The ON. usually has gg where the AS. has eg and OHG. cc or
kk, namely, where a suffix i had stood after g or k: thus, ON.
egg (acies), AS. ecg, OHG. ekki ON. ; bryggja (ponsj, AS. brycge,
OHG. prukka; ON. hryggr (dorsum), AS. hrycg, OHG. hrukki.
In the same way we get an AS. Fricg, OHG. Frikka, Frikkia, even
farther away from Frouwd than Frigg from Freyja.
It is the confounding of these two beings that will explain how
Adam of Bremen came to put Fricco instead of Fro for Freyr (supra,
p. 212) ; he would equally have said Fricca for Freyja. Fricco,
Friccho, Friccolf were in use as proper names in OHG.
And now it seems possible to explain, what is otherwise
unaccountable, why the sixth day of the week, dies Veneris, should
be called in ON. both Freyju&a,gr and also Friadagr, in OHG,
never Frouwuntac, but Friatac, Frigefac, now Freitag, in AS.
(for Fricgedseg ?), v. supra, pp. 123-6, and in Faroese
(Lyngbye 532).
Among these forms the AS. presents no difficulty : in the OHG.
and ON. names we are puzzled by the absence of the guttural I
believe a solution is offered by that most important passage in
Paulus Diac. 1, 8 where Wodan s consort is named Frea, which can
only mean Frigg, not Freyja, as Saxo Gram, too, while expressly
grounding on Paulus,
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auctore Frig dea .
makes use of the form : Frig Paulo teste
This Langob. Frea accords with the OHG. Frfa, I take it to be
not only identical with Frigg, but the original form of the name ;
it has less to do with Freyja and the AS. masc. frea. As an ON.
bru (pons) stands related to bryggia, so will fri to frigg. The
Langob. Frea is = Frea, Fria, Frija, Frea. Its root is suggested by
1 The AS chroniclers (p. 128) borrow Frea from Paulus. With Frea we
must above all connect the frea of the Laws of Liutprand 6, 40 and 67 and
tins means uxor, clomma, not libera, ingenua. Paulus therefore, in assmnim
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