The names "Freyja" and "Vanir" (the group of gods to which Freyja belongs) are not attested outside of Scandinavia, as opposed to the name of the goddess "Frigg", who is mentioned as "Frīg" in Old English and as "Frīja" in Old High German, all stemming from Proto-Germanic *"Frijjō". Although there is no similar evidence for the existence of a common Germanic goddess from which "Freyja" descends, some scholars have argued that this may simply be due to the scarcity of records outside of the North Germanic tradition.