Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique)
Peter Wennerholm (khun@cd.chalmers.se)
16 Oct 1995 19:55:27 GMT
In article <badger.813795176@phylo.life.uiuc.edu>,
Jonathan Badger <badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>pbm1001@cam.ac.uk (Paul Menage) writes:
>
>>In article <45mcr3$g89@perl.eng.umd.edu>,
>>coolhand@Glue.umd.edu (Kevin Anthony Scaldeferri) writes:
>
>Germanic/Scandianavian gods are used for a lot of day names, at least in
>English.
>
>Wednesday is indeed Wotan's Day
>Thursday is Thor's Day
>Friday is Frey's Day
>
>Tuesday is Tiw's Day, but I forget if Tiw is from the same pantheon or not.
I'll take that one - it is my ancestors we are talking about :-)
Tiw's Scandinavian name is Tyr, and he is/was the Norse god of war - the
one-handed commander of the Einhaerjar and the Valkyries. He is not to be
confused with Thor, god of thunder and lightning.
Peter
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