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WRT the claim about days of the week: Sunday = Sun Day (Sunna), Monday = Moon Day (Mani), Tuesday = Tiw's Day (Germanic form of Tyr), Wednesday = Woden's Day (Anglo-Saxon form of Odin), Thursday = Thor's Day, Friday = Frigga's Day or Freya's Day, probably the former. Only Saturday = Saturn's Day is a Roman reference. Interesting side note: in most pagan mythologies, the sun is male and the moon is female, but in Norse mythology, it's the other way around. --[[User:Abell|Abell]] 13:25, 18 March 2007 (EDT)
I don't know that that's right. See Online Etymology Doctionary which indicates that Sunday and Monday are loan translationds for "day of the sun" and "day of the moon", and doesn't mention the names of the "gods" you mention
[[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Sunday&searchmode=none Sunday]]
[[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Monday&searchmode=none Monday]]
I don't know that that's right. See Online Etymology Doctionary which indicates that Sunday and Monday are loan translationds for "day of the sun" and "day of the moon", and doesn't mention the names of the "gods" you mention
[[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Sunday&searchmode=none Sunday]]
[[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Monday&searchmode=none Monday]]