Frea

[258] A deity of Scythian origin, called Frea or Fricca.

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

(Odin) to grant them victory over the Vinili; the latter made a similar prayer to Frea (Frigg), the wife of Wodan.

The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday

Ing, according to the Old English _Rune-Poem_, "was first seen by men amid the East Danes"; he has been identified with Frea.

The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

To the Thunder (Jupiter) they gave Thursday, because that it may help them; to Frea, their lady, they gave her Friday; to Saturnus they gave Saturday; to the Sun they gave Sunday; to the Moon they gave Monday; to Tidea they gave

Roman de Brut. English Layamon

The peasants, in the month of February, the season formerly sacred to Frea, make little images of boars in paste, which they apply to various superstitious uses.

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Germane nation that bare rule in this Ile, fetcht their pedegrées from one Woden, who begat of Frea his wife seuen sonnes, that is to say, 1

Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

In the first of the examples that follow, we should be inclined to change to Nanny the maid-of-all-work's, and in the second to the day of Frea, goddess of, &c.

Case. 1908

A black cat was commonly sacrificed by the ancients to Hecate, or among the Scandinavians to Frea, the northern

Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals R. Lee 1865

Again Odin and Frea, with their children, and the heroes sung by the scalds, in the war songs which he heard echoing from around the fire at that moment:

Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

Woden and Frea: and in every instance these Divinities represented the

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850