Editing Frøya Municipality (section)

===Name===
The name of the island and municipality come from [[Norse mythology]]. Although ''Frøya'' is a variant of the name of the Norse goddess [[Freyja]], the [[Old Norse]] form of the name of the island was ''Frøy'' or ''Frey'' (the ending ''-a'' in the modern form is actually the feminine definite article – so the meaning of ''Frøya'' is 'the Frøy'). Therefore, the name of the island probably has the same root as the name of the [[List of Norse gods and goddesses|Norse god]] [[Freyr]], brother to Freyja. The names originally were titles: "[[lord]]" or "[[lady]]". The oldest meaning of the common word was "(the one) in front; the foremost, the leading" and here in the sense "the island in front of [[Hitra (island)|Hitra]]". Until 1906 the island and municipality name was spelled ''Frøien'' (''-en'' is the masculine definite article in [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rygh |first=Oluf |author-link=Oluf Rygh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGxBAAAAIAAJ |title=Norske gaardnavne: Søndre Trondhjems amt |publisher=W. C. Fabritius & sønners bogtrikkeri |year=1901 |edition=14 |location=Kristiania, Norge |pages=55 |language=no}}</ref>