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: Friday - Frigga or Freya's day. Frigg and Freya were both ferility goddesses. In french it is vendredi - Venus's Day. Venus = Roman god of fertility
: Friday - Frigga or Freya's day. Frigg and Freya were both ferility goddesses. In french it is vendredi - Venus's Day. Venus = Roman god of fertility
: --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 21:26, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
: --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 21:26, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
::Abell has asserted that Sunday and Monday are named for Sunna and Mani, but neither the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on my shelf nor the Online Etymology Dictionary bear out this assertion. I'd propose that someone confirm the etymology of the two days' names with the full OED and we accept that as the final source on the matter. In any event, the Anglo-Saxons were not Vikings....they were a Germanic culture made up largely of conquered Celts, so why is the sentence on the days of the week being named after Anglo-Saxon gods at all relevant to the Viking entry? I'm going to delete the sentence, but it might be added into an article about Scandivaian/Teutonic mythology, as trivia, or an article on the Anglo-Saxons. : --[[User:JesusSaves|JesusSaves]] 20:59, 15 April 2007 (EDT)