Talk:Viking

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. --Abell 13:25, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

I don't know that that's right. See Online Etymology Dictionary which indicates that Sunday and Monday are loan translations for "day of the sun" and "day of the moon", and doesn't mention the names of the "gods" you mention.

[Sunday]

[Monday]

You will find [1] [2] to be a good refrence for reading.

Monday - Moon Day

Tuesday - Tyr's Day. Tyr = Norse god of war. In French (from Latin) it is mardi - Mars Day. Mars = Roman god of war

Wensday - Odin's Day. Odin = Norse god of the traveler. In Frech, it is mercredi - Mercury's Day. Mercury = Roman god of travel.

Thursday - Thor's Day. Thor = Norse god of lightning. In French it is jeudi - Jupiter's Day. Jupiter = Roman god of lightning

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

--Mtur 21:26, 25 April 2007 (EDT)