To: Graybeard58
The name comes from the Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English Wōdnesdæg, meaning the day of the English god Woden (Wodan), a god in Anglo-Saxon England until about the 7th century. Wēdnes dæg is like the Old Norse Oðinsdagr ("Odin's day"), which is an early translation of the Latin dies Mercurii ("Mercury's day"), and reflects the widespread association of Woden with Mercury going back to Tacitus.
14 posted on
12/04/2009 5:28:58 PM PST by
votemout
To: votemout
Thanks. I didn’t even know that I didn’t know that.
23 posted on
12/04/2009 5:59:34 PM PST by
VoiceOfBruck
(She introduced me to so many new things... pasteurized milk, sheets, monotheism...)
To: votemout
Interesting; in Spanish Wednesday is “miercoles”.
30 posted on
12/04/2009 7:21:37 PM PST by
Carlos Martillo II
(Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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