Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
(dfox@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE)
14 Oct 1995 21:27:40 GMT
Alan Roberts (alanr@rd.bbc.co.uk) wrote:
: Wednesday comes from Wotan, not a planet.
At least in Germanic languages it does. In other European languages it
is derived from a planet. And it may be true that Wotan was identified
with Jupiter in Norse mythology.
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