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I mentioned inside a recent article that there would be a dispute in several academic quarters regarding the particular Viking deity being honored from the name, 'Friday. ' The cold, hard fact is unless someone unearths a runic stone that confirms the difficulty --- and that is not likely --- merely a preponderance of circumstantial evidence will certainly carry the day in such debate.
So, while others while away their time contemplating world peace, I have returned towards the look for Friday's inspiration.
If you recall, four from the seven days each week are named after Norse gods :
- Tuesday is perfect for Tyr, the God of truth and war,
- Wednesday is perfect for Odin, the Allfather of Viking gods,
- Thursday is perfect for Thor, the god of thunder,
- Friday, however, is cloaked in ambiguity.
I'd always heard the day's name-origin came from Frigg, Odin's elder wife --- he‘d greater than one --- and it is supported by the foremost scholarly of English references, such like the Oxford dictionary. Others say it was eventually for either Frey or Freja, who were brother and sister inside the Vanir clan. Frey was the god of fertility, so it was eventually considered essential to stay him happy; Freja was the goddess of adore and beauty, so it did not hurt to stay on her good side, either.
Frigg's duties were as being the goddess of the sky. It was eventually a subtle job, but someone had to do it right.
Embracing cyberspace for resolution, I happened with an excellent guide in Norse matters, The Viking Answer Lady. She‘s so meticulous in her material that I felt the potential of her bringing light to the difficulty was quite good. So, I contacted her. To mention she did her research is an understatement. Here is her answer me:
"Since Western Europe all originally derived from Indo-European tribes, we discover that there have been lots of correspondences between the different branches --- not exact, one-for-one identity, but concepts are related. So it is no surprise to locate the naming and symbolism of the times each week, and some days in every week could be pretty much similar in all of the descendants from the Indo-Europeans.
"You can begin to see the day-name correspondences in other languages that descend from Indo-European :
"Ancient Greek has: Hemera selenes (moon day ), Hemera Areos (Ares' day), Hemera Hermu (Hermes' day), Hemera Dios (Zeus' day ), Hemera Aphrodite (Aphrodite's day), Hemera Khronu (Chronos' day), Hemera helios (sun day)
"Latin : Lunae dies (Moon-day, Monday), Martis dies (Mars-Day, Tuesday), Mercurii dies (Mercury's day, Wednesday), Jovis dies (Jove's day, Thursday), Veneris dies (Venus' day, Friday), Saturni dies (Saturn's day, Saturday) or alternatively Christian Sabbatum or Sabbati dies (Sabbath day), Solis dies (Sunday) or alternatively Christian Dominicus dies (Lord's day)
"Unsurprisingly, the Romance languages derive their day names from Latin, aside from Portuguese, which numbers the times :
"Italian: Lundi, martini, merc ole di, gloved, Venere, Sabato, Domenica
"Spanish : lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado, domingo
"French : lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche
"Romanian : luni, marti, miercuri, joi, vineri, sîmbata, duminica
"Portugese: Segunda-Feira (2nd day, Monday ); Terça-Feira (3rd day, Tuesday ); Quarta-Feira (4th day, Wednesday ); Quinta-Feira (5th day, Thursday ); Sexta-Feira (6th day, Friday ); Sábado (Sabbath, Saturday ); Domingo (Lord's Day, Sunday )
"The Celtic languages have used and preserved the Latin names of the times, and likewise borrowed heavily from Christian concepts :
"Welsh: Dydd Llun (moon / Luna day ), Dydd Mawrth (Mars' day ), Dydd Mercher (Mercury's day ), Dydd Iau (Jove's day ), Dydd Gwener (Venus's day ), Dydd Sadwrn (Saturn's day ), Dydd Sul (sun day )
"Gaelic : Di-again (moon day ) ; Di-máirt (Mars's day ) ; Di-cladding or Di-cicada in (day‘s the very first fast each week - Friday being the next fast ) ; Diardaoin (the day between the 2 fasts of Wednesday and Friday ) ; Di-heroine or Dia-point (day from the fast ) Di-Saturn (Saturn day ) ; Di-dómhnuich (Lord's day )
"Irish : Dé Luan (moon / Luna day ) ; Dé Mairt (Mars' day ) ; Dé Céadaoin (day‘s the very first fast each week ) ; Déardaoin ; Dé h-Aoine (the day between the 2 fasts of Wednesday and Friday ) ; Dé Sathairn (Saturn's day ) ; Dé Domhnaigh (Lord's day )
"The Germanic languages, however, will also be related. Ares / Mars was equated with Týr like a warrior god. Zeus / Jupiter was equated with Thórr like the God who hurled lightning. Mercury was equated with Óðinn since both experienced a role as psychopomps, the one who leads the dead on their afterlife. Aphrodite / Venus was equated with Frigga and Freyja.
"German: Montag (moon day ), Dienstag (Týr's day ), Mittwoch (Mid-week ), Donnerstag (Donner's / Thórr's day ), Freitag (Freyja / Frigga's day ), Samstag (derived ultimately from Latin Sabbatum ), Sonntag (sun day )
"Dutch: manage (moon day ), dins dag, woe ns dag (Woden's / Óðinn's day ), wondered (Donner's / Thórr's day ), Friday (Freyja / Frigga's day ), Zaterdag (Saturn day ), Zondag (sun day )
"Norwegian and Danish: mandag (moon day ), tired (Týr's day ), onstage (Óðinn's day ), tors dag (Thórr's day ), Fredag (Freyja's / Frigga's day ), lørdag (washing day ), søndag (sun day )
"Swedish: måndag (moon day ), this dag (Týr's day ), onstage (Óðinn's day ), tors dag (Thor's day ), Fredag (Freyja / Frigga's day ), lördag (wash day ), söndag (sun day )
"Old English : mondæg or monandæg (moon day ) ; tiwesdæg (Tiw's day, Týr's day ) ; wodnesdæg (Wotan's / Óðinn's day ) ; thunresdæg (Thórr's day ) ; frigedæg (Frigga's / Freya's day ) ; sæterdæg or sæternesdæg (Saturn's day) ; sunnandæg (sun day)
"Middle English : Monday, Monday, or Monday (moon day ) ; Tuesday or Tuesday (Tiw's day, Týr's day ) ; Wednesday, Wednesday, or Wednesday (Wotan's / Óðinn's day ) ; Thursday or Thursday (Thórr's day ) ; Friday (Frigga's / Freya's day ) ; Saturday (Saturn's day ) ; someday, someday, Sunday, Sunday (sun day )
"North Frisian : monnendei (moon-day ) ; Tirsdei (Týr's-day ) ; Winsdei (Wotan's / Óðinn's day ) ; Türsdei (Thórr's day ) ; Fridei (Frigga's / Freyja's day ) ; sennin (sun-evening ) ; sennedei (sun day )
"Etymologically, it is impossible to inform for certain if the 'Friday' words derive from Frigga or Freyja (a minimum of so I‘m told, I‘m not a philologist or linguistics expert ). We will tell from the cognates the name is given by a goddess equated with Venus and Aphrodite.
"We calculate into further problems in which 'Freyja' is derived from roots meaning simply 'lady' while 'Frigga' comes from roots associated with 'beloved. ' There happen to be several scholars who insist that Frigga and Freyja are just different titles for a similar goddess.
"None the less, undoubtedly 'Friday' comes coming from the name of one of these simple two goddesses, and never coming from the name from the god Freyr.
Now, that is the kind of studied thoroughness which will achieve Master's degrees. It is a preponderance of evidence which will carry the day inside a court of law. Albeit she only eliminated perhaps one of the three contenders to it of Friday's Namesake, the Viking Answer Lady has gone above and beyond the call of duty to supply me using the information I requested.
I‘m certainly glad I did not tell her I‘d been just attempting to win a bar bet.
I think it's enough all about Friday's Girl. Thanks so much :)
I mentioned inside a recent article that there would be a dispute in several academic quarters regarding the particular Viking deity being honored from the name, 'Friday. ' The cold, hard fact is unless someone unearths a runic stone that confirms the difficulty --- and that is not likely --- merely a preponderance of circumstantial evidence will certainly carry the day in such debate.
Friday's Girl
So, while others while away their time contemplating world peace, I have returned towards the look for Friday's inspiration.
If you recall, four from the seven days each week are named after Norse gods :
- Tuesday is perfect for Tyr, the God of truth and war,
- Wednesday is perfect for Odin, the Allfather of Viking gods,
- Thursday is perfect for Thor, the god of thunder,
- Friday, however, is cloaked in ambiguity.
I'd always heard the day's name-origin came from Frigg, Odin's elder wife --- he‘d greater than one --- and it is supported by the foremost scholarly of English references, such like the Oxford dictionary. Others say it was eventually for either Frey or Freja, who were brother and sister inside the Vanir clan. Frey was the god of fertility, so it was eventually considered essential to stay him happy; Freja was the goddess of adore and beauty, so it did not hurt to stay on her good side, either.
Frigg's duties were as being the goddess of the sky. It was eventually a subtle job, but someone had to do it right.
Embracing cyberspace for resolution, I happened with an excellent guide in Norse matters, The Viking Answer Lady. She‘s so meticulous in her material that I felt the potential of her bringing light to the difficulty was quite good. So, I contacted her. To mention she did her research is an understatement. Here is her answer me:
"Since Western Europe all originally derived from Indo-European tribes, we discover that there have been lots of correspondences between the different branches --- not exact, one-for-one identity, but concepts are related. So it is no surprise to locate the naming and symbolism of the times each week, and some days in every week could be pretty much similar in all of the descendants from the Indo-Europeans.
"You can begin to see the day-name correspondences in other languages that descend from Indo-European :
"Ancient Greek has: Hemera selenes (moon day ), Hemera Areos (Ares' day), Hemera Hermu (Hermes' day), Hemera Dios (Zeus' day ), Hemera Aphrodite (Aphrodite's day), Hemera Khronu (Chronos' day), Hemera helios (sun day)
"Latin : Lunae dies (Moon-day, Monday), Martis dies (Mars-Day, Tuesday), Mercurii dies (Mercury's day, Wednesday), Jovis dies (Jove's day, Thursday), Veneris dies (Venus' day, Friday), Saturni dies (Saturn's day, Saturday) or alternatively Christian Sabbatum or Sabbati dies (Sabbath day), Solis dies (Sunday) or alternatively Christian Dominicus dies (Lord's day)
"Unsurprisingly, the Romance languages derive their day names from Latin, aside from Portuguese, which numbers the times :
"Italian: Lundi, martini, merc ole di, gloved, Venere, Sabato, Domenica
"Spanish : lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado, domingo
"French : lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi, dimanche
"Romanian : luni, marti, miercuri, joi, vineri, sîmbata, duminica
"Portugese: Segunda-Feira (2nd day, Monday ); Terça-Feira (3rd day, Tuesday ); Quarta-Feira (4th day, Wednesday ); Quinta-Feira (5th day, Thursday ); Sexta-Feira (6th day, Friday ); Sábado (Sabbath, Saturday ); Domingo (Lord's Day, Sunday )
"The Celtic languages have used and preserved the Latin names of the times, and likewise borrowed heavily from Christian concepts :
"Welsh: Dydd Llun (moon / Luna day ), Dydd Mawrth (Mars' day ), Dydd Mercher (Mercury's day ), Dydd Iau (Jove's day ), Dydd Gwener (Venus's day ), Dydd Sadwrn (Saturn's day ), Dydd Sul (sun day )
"Gaelic : Di-again (moon day ) ; Di-máirt (Mars's day ) ; Di-cladding or Di-cicada in (day‘s the very first fast each week - Friday being the next fast ) ; Diardaoin (the day between the 2 fasts of Wednesday and Friday ) ; Di-heroine or Dia-point (day from the fast ) Di-Saturn (Saturn day ) ; Di-dómhnuich (Lord's day )
"Irish : Dé Luan (moon / Luna day ) ; Dé Mairt (Mars' day ) ; Dé Céadaoin (day‘s the very first fast each week ) ; Déardaoin ; Dé h-Aoine (the day between the 2 fasts of Wednesday and Friday ) ; Dé Sathairn (Saturn's day ) ; Dé Domhnaigh (Lord's day )
"The Germanic languages, however, will also be related. Ares / Mars was equated with Týr like a warrior god. Zeus / Jupiter was equated with Thórr like the God who hurled lightning. Mercury was equated with Óðinn since both experienced a role as psychopomps, the one who leads the dead on their afterlife. Aphrodite / Venus was equated with Frigga and Freyja.
"German: Montag (moon day ), Dienstag (Týr's day ), Mittwoch (Mid-week ), Donnerstag (Donner's / Thórr's day ), Freitag (Freyja / Frigga's day ), Samstag (derived ultimately from Latin Sabbatum ), Sonntag (sun day )
"Dutch: manage (moon day ), dins dag, woe ns dag (Woden's / Óðinn's day ), wondered (Donner's / Thórr's day ), Friday (Freyja / Frigga's day ), Zaterdag (Saturn day ), Zondag (sun day )
"Norwegian and Danish: mandag (moon day ), tired (Týr's day ), onstage (Óðinn's day ), tors dag (Thórr's day ), Fredag (Freyja's / Frigga's day ), lørdag (washing day ), søndag (sun day )
"Swedish: måndag (moon day ), this dag (Týr's day ), onstage (Óðinn's day ), tors dag (Thor's day ), Fredag (Freyja / Frigga's day ), lördag (wash day ), söndag (sun day )
"Old English : mondæg or monandæg (moon day ) ; tiwesdæg (Tiw's day, Týr's day ) ; wodnesdæg (Wotan's / Óðinn's day ) ; thunresdæg (Thórr's day ) ; frigedæg (Frigga's / Freya's day ) ; sæterdæg or sæternesdæg (Saturn's day) ; sunnandæg (sun day)
"Middle English : Monday, Monday, or Monday (moon day ) ; Tuesday or Tuesday (Tiw's day, Týr's day ) ; Wednesday, Wednesday, or Wednesday (Wotan's / Óðinn's day ) ; Thursday or Thursday (Thórr's day ) ; Friday (Frigga's / Freya's day ) ; Saturday (Saturn's day ) ; someday, someday, Sunday, Sunday (sun day )
"North Frisian : monnendei (moon-day ) ; Tirsdei (Týr's-day ) ; Winsdei (Wotan's / Óðinn's day ) ; Türsdei (Thórr's day ) ; Fridei (Frigga's / Freyja's day ) ; sennin (sun-evening ) ; sennedei (sun day )
"Etymologically, it is impossible to inform for certain if the 'Friday' words derive from Frigga or Freyja (a minimum of so I‘m told, I‘m not a philologist or linguistics expert ). We will tell from the cognates the name is given by a goddess equated with Venus and Aphrodite.
"We calculate into further problems in which 'Freyja' is derived from roots meaning simply 'lady' while 'Frigga' comes from roots associated with 'beloved. ' There happen to be several scholars who insist that Frigga and Freyja are just different titles for a similar goddess.
"None the less, undoubtedly 'Friday' comes coming from the name of one of these simple two goddesses, and never coming from the name from the god Freyr.
Now, that is the kind of studied thoroughness which will achieve Master's degrees. It is a preponderance of evidence which will carry the day inside a court of law. Albeit she only eliminated perhaps one of the three contenders to it of Friday's Namesake, the Viking Answer Lady has gone above and beyond the call of duty to supply me using the information I requested.
I‘m certainly glad I did not tell her I‘d been just attempting to win a bar bet.
I think it's enough all about Friday's Girl. Thanks so much :)
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