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Originally posted by Sir_Tainly:
Wolfie, just look at the Days of the week in English, some of them are borrowed from the scandinavians and named after their Norse gods
Wednesday = Wodan
Thursday = Thor
Friday = Freya (sp?)
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Sun day
Moon day
Tue's day (Celtic God of War I believe)
Woden's day (Norse King God Odin's day)
Thor's day (Norse God of Thunder)
Freya's day (Norse Goddess of Love and Beauty I believe)
Saturn' day (King of the Titan's - Zeus' father)
What gets me about the months of the year is they made perfect sense: OCTober (eight) SEPTember (seventh) NOVember (ninth) and DECember (tenth) until some idiot added July (Julius Caeser) and August (Augustus Caeser) IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR!!!!
Hello!
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