Interesting to not that over half of are modern day names comes from Norse mythology. I actually have a quiz on the Origins of the Days of the Week that overlaps with this one.
Me too. Funny. In my native German it's Freitag which sounds a lot more similar to Freya (Freia) than Frigga. However in Old German it's Frigedeag, and in Old Norse, Friday was sometimes called Freyjudagr (after Freya) and sometimes Frjádagr (after Frigga). TL;DR I guess we don't know, maybe both is correct?
The g is generally soft and pronounced like and English y. There are also several ways the name is spelled. Although it isn't entirely clear, it's thought that they be separate entities. It's confusing though because the names are cognates.
There's actually a lot of debate over if they are the same goddess or different goddesses. Until that debate is settled it's probably best to treat them separately and it's well accepted that Frigg rather than Freya is where Friday comes from (which is slightly confusing since Freya sounds more like Friday than Frigg does).
I think Freya and Frigg are generally considered to be seperate entities, with Freya being associated with fertility, and Frigg being the wife of Odin?
I first tried "horse" because of Sleipnir, surely it's a type of animal which accompanies Odin as much as his wolves and ravens? A typical explanatory sentence from Wikipedia:
He is often accompanied by his animal familiars—the wolves Geri and Freki and the ravens Huginn and Muninn, who bring him information from all over Midgard—and he rides the flying, eight-legged steed Sleipnir across the sky and into the underworld.
It didn't matter to me, I knew about the others too, but the question might benefit from being phrased differently, or allowing "horse" as well.
It's also true that Sleipnir has eight legs, but I think that makes him an eight-legged horse, not another type of animal.
Until there is a consensus among experts on the Freyja-Frigg issue (which there never might be, seeing as the sources we have now are likely the only ones we'll ever have), Freyja should definitely be accepted as an answer for the Friday question.
no... really... I learned all this stuff back when I was in elementary school and a nerd about mythology. Especially Greek, Egyptian, and Norse.
Usually type in Woden or Wotan but know by now that Odin is the preferred spelling on the site so I started with that.
If you google "Frida (mythology)" the first page you find is "Freyia".
I strongly support that both are accepted as type-ins.
He is often accompanied by his animal familiars—the wolves Geri and Freki and the ravens Huginn and Muninn, who bring him information from all over Midgard—and he rides the flying, eight-legged steed Sleipnir across the sky and into the underworld.
It didn't matter to me, I knew about the others too, but the question might benefit from being phrased differently, or allowing "horse" as well.
It's also true that Sleipnir has eight legs, but I think that makes him an eight-legged horse, not another type of animal.
Answer such as
Thor - Tor
Frigg - Frida
Loki - Loke
etc..