"terms of Norse origin for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, then later supplanted these with terms relating to church fasting practices. Albanian adopted the Latin terms for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, adopted translations of the Latin terms for Sunday and Monday, and kept native terms for Thursday and Friday. Other languages adopted the week together with the Latin (Romance) names for the days of the week in the colonial period. Some constructed languages also adopted the Latin terminology. The Germanic peoples adapted the system introduced by the Romans by substituting the Germanic deities for the Roman ones (with the exception of"
"Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however, especially in the United States, it is the third day of the week. The English name is derived from Old English ""Tiwesdæg"" and Middle English ""Tewesday,"" meaning ""Tīw's Day"", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with Mars in the interpretatio germanica, and the name of the day is a translation of Latin"
"""xoves"" and Romanian ""joi"". This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh ""dydd Iau"". The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: ""Torsdag"" in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, ""Hósdagur""/""Tórsdagur"" in Faroese, ""Donnerstag"" in German or ""Donderdag"" in Dutch. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic (Uralic) languages, uses the borrowing ""Torstai"" and ""Duorastat"". In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was ""perundan"", Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. There"
"English days of the week were inherited from gods of the old Germanic Norse culture — Wednesday is ""Wōden""’s-day (""Wōden"" or ""Wettin"" eqv. Mercury), Thursday is ""Thor""’s-day (Thor eqv. Jupiter), Friday is ""Frige""-day (Frig eqv. Venus). It can be correlated that the Norse gods were attributed to each Roman planet and its god, probably due to Roman influence rather than coincidentally by the naming of the planets. In alchemy, each classical planet (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) was associated with one of the seven metals known to the classical world (silver, mercury/quicksilver, copper, gold, iron, tin and"
"but this has changed to Fridays globally in 2015. In Australia, events occurring on Tuesdays include: Tuesday Tuesday is the day of the week between Monday and Wednesday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the second day of the week. According to some commonly used calendars, however, especially in the United States, it is the third day of the week. The English name is derived from Old English ""Tiwesdæg"" and Middle English ""Tewesday,"" meaning ""Tīw's Day"", the day of Tiw or Týr, the god of single combat, and law and justice in Norse mythology. Tiw was equated with"
"inspired numerous works of art and references to Thor appear in modern popular culture. Like other Germanic deities, veneration of Thor is revived in the modern period in Heathenry. Old Norse (), Old English , Old High German , Old Saxon , and Old Frisian are cognates within the Germanic language branch, descending from the Proto-Germanic masculine noun 'thunder'. The name of the god is the origin of the weekday name ""Thursday"". By employing a practice known as during the Roman Empire period, the Germanic peoples adopted the Roman weekly calendar, and replaced the names of Roman gods with their"
"Mjölnir In Norse mythology, Mjölnir (; , ) is the hammer of Thor, the Norse god associated with thunder. Mjölnir is depicted in Norse mythology as one of the most fearsome and powerful weapons in existence, capable of leveling mountains. In its account of Norse mythology, the ""Prose Edda"" relates how the hammers characteristically short handle was due to a mistake during its manufacture. Similar hammers (Ukonvasara) were a common symbol of the god of thunder in other North European mythologies. Modern depictions of Mjolnir are most prevalent amongst practitioners of Heathenry (a modern Pagan religious movement) and white supremacist"
"(""Glittering Nymph""), which remains very popular and which is frequently sung in renditions by numerous artists. Jofur Jofur (from Old Norse ""Jöfurr"": ""wild boar"") is a name used in Nordic literature for the thunder god, mainly as a synonym for Jupiter. Jofur probably originated in the writings of the 17th-century Swedish scientist and writer Olaus Rudbeckius, and has since been used in Nordic poetry, mainly during the Baroque and Rococo eras. Jofur (as a god) does not appear in Norse mythology, even though the word was also used as an honorary title for kings and heroes. The most famous use"
"Jofur Jofur (from Old Norse ""Jöfurr"": ""wild boar"") is a name used in Nordic literature for the thunder god, mainly as a synonym for Jupiter. Jofur probably originated in the writings of the 17th-century Swedish scientist and writer Olaus Rudbeckius, and has since been used in Nordic poetry, mainly during the Baroque and Rococo eras. Jofur (as a god) does not appear in Norse mythology, even though the word was also used as an honorary title for kings and heroes. The most famous use of the word is in Carl Michael Bellman's (1740-1795) song Fredman's Epistle No. 72 ""Glimmande Nymf"""
"two go outside to investigate to discover Thor waiting for them and preparing Mjölnir in retribution for his sons' deaths. Thor In Germanic mythology, Thor (; from ) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing and fertility. Besides Old Norse ""Þórr"", extensions of the god occur in Old English as , and in Old High German as (runic ). All forms of the deity stem from a Common Germanic (meaning 'thunder'). Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman"
"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
", and owns the staff . Thor's exploits, including his relentless slaughter of his foes and fierce battles with the monstrous serpent —and their foretold mutual deaths during the events of —are recorded throughout sources for Norse mythology. Into the modern period, Thor continued to be acknowledged in rural folklore throughout Germanic-speaking Europe. Thor is frequently referred to in place names, the day of the week Thursday bears his name (modern English ""Thursday"" derives from Old English , 'Þunor's day'), and names stemming from the pagan period containing his own continue to be used today, particularly in Scandinavia. Thor has"
"connected with that of Þórr, the name of the Norse thunder god Thor, or thunder personified.<ref>Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Franz Joseph Mone, ""Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen"", Heyer und Leske, 1822, p. 275. The ""Chronicle of Lejre"" (“Chronicon Lethrense”) written about 1170 introduces a primeval King Ypper of Uppsala whose three sons were Dan who afterwards ruled Denmark, Nori who afterwards ruled Norway, and Östen who afterwards ruled the Swedes. But the account then speaks only of the descendants of Dan. Although not matching, there are som correspondences between the sources. In the B-source (""Hversu Noregr byggðist"")"
"Jupiter in the ""interpretatio romana"". Estonians used to gather in holy woods (Hiis) on Thursday evenings, where a bagpipe player sat on a stone and played while people danced and sang until the dawn. In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god Jupiter, who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the day was known as ""Iovis Dies"", ""Jupiter's Day"". In Latin, the genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was ""Iovis""/""Jovis"" and thus in most Romance languages it became the word for Thursday: Italian ""giovedì"", Spanish ""jueves"", French ""jeudi"", Sardinian jòvia, Catalan ""dijous"", Galician"
"day on the electoral timetable, therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday; prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative. Thursday is aligned by the planet Jupiter and the astrological signs of Pisces and Sagittarius. Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. ""See Names of the days of the week for more on naming conventions. "" The name is derived from Old English ""Þūnresdæg"" and Middle English ""Thuresday"" (with loss of"
"Jörð In Norse mythology, Jörð (Old Norse ""jǫrð"", ""earth"" pronounced , Icelandic Jörð, pronounced , sometimes Anglicized as Jord or Jorth; also called Jarð, as in Old East Norse), is a female jötunn. She is the mother of the thunder god Thor, son of Odin, and the personification of earth. Fjörgyn and Hlóðyn are considered to be other names for Jörð. Some scholars refer to Jörð as a goddess. Jörð's name appears in skaldic poetry both as a poetic term for the land and in kennings for Thor. ""Jörð"" is the common word for ""earth"" in Old Norse, as are"
"be considered memorials to Thor in folk tradition due to their sheer weight. On the Swedish island of Gotland, a species of beetle (""Scarabæus stercorarius"") was named after the god; the . When the beetle is found turned upside down and one flips it over, Thor's favor may be gained. In other regions of Sweden the name of the beetle appears to have been demonized with Christianization, where the insect came to be known as or (both meaning ""Thor-devil""). Thor closely resembles other Indo-European deities associated with the thunder: the Celtic Taranis, the Baltic , the Slavic Perun, and particularly"
"name storms affecting Denmark following the St. Jude storm (which had retroactively been given the name Allan) named the storm Bodil. In Poland, the storm is named Ksawery, which is the Polish equivalent of Xaver. The Swedish Meteorological Institute gave the storm the name Sven, after the name day of 5 December. In the Netherlands the storm was known as the ""Sinterklaasstorm"", as 5 December is traditionally celebrated as St. Nicholas Eve in the country. Twitter users in the UK were using the hashtags #scotstorm, #Xaver and #UKstorm. The European Windstorm Centre, a UK-based forecaster, gave the storm the name"
"Ukko Ukko, or Äijä or Äijö (Finnish: ""male grandparent"", ""grandfather"", ""old man""), parallel to Uku in Estonian mythology, is the god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology. Ukkonen, the Finnish word for thunder is the diminutive form of the name ""Ukko"". Some researchers believe that Ilmarinen, another Finnic sky god, is the origin of Ukko, while some others believe that Ukko's original name was Baltic Perkele. Ukko is held the most significant god of Finnish mythology, although it is disputed by scholars whether this is accountable to later Christian influence. In the folk poems and prayers"
"becoming known as ""The Tomb of the Lord of the Goats"". According to Norse mythology, the god of thunder, Thor, has a chariot that is pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. At night when he sets up camp, Thor eats the meat of the goats, but takes care that all bones remain whole. Then he wraps the remains up, and in the morning, the goats always come back to life to pull the chariot. When a farmer's son who is invited to share the meal breaks one of the goats' leg bones to suck the marrow, the animal's leg"
"one covering the semantic field of ""love, courtship, friendship"" (English ""friend""), the other the field of ""freedom"" (English ""free""). The weekday Friday in English is named after for the goddess Frigg (Old English ""frigedæg""). Friday in Old Norse was called both ""Freyjudagr"" and ""Frjádagr"", in Faröese ""fríggjadagur"", and in Old High German never *""Frouwûntac"", but ""Frîatac, Frîgetac"", now ""Freitag"". There is some evidence that the epithet *""frawjō"" ""lady"" was applied to this goddess. The two names were confused from early times, especially in Old English, where the stem of ""*frīj-"" appears as ""frēo-, frīo-, frēa-"" (a contraction of ""*īj-"" and"
"the day of the Thunderer in many traditions: compare Polabian ""Peräune-dǻn"" (""day of Perun""), Lithuanian ""Perkūno diena"". Perkūnas is associated with the Roman god Jupiter in early sources. Thursday is a day of thunder-storms and rains, and also of weddings. Simon Grunau (around 1520) describes a Prussian banner with Perkūns on it. The god is represented as an angry middle aged man with a twisted black beard, topped with a flame. It stands between young Patrimpas and old Patulas. Perkūns maintains the same central position in the description of the sacred oak in Romowe sanctuary. In front of the oak,"
"through the sky. The leader of the wild hunt is frequently attested as the god Wodan (Norse Odin), bearing (among many names) the names ""Jólnir"", meaning ""Yule figure"", and ""Langbarðr"", meaning ""long-beard"", in Old Norse. Wodan's role during the Yuletide period has been theorized as having influenced concepts of St. Nicholas in a variety of facets, including his long white beard and his gray horse for nightly rides (compare Odin's horse Sleipnir) or his reindeer in North American tradition. Folklorist Margaret Baker maintains that ""the appearance of Santa Claus or Father Christmas, whose day is the 25th of December, owes"
"appear listed in the Prose Edda as a unique goddess, but that the fact that she does not appear elsewhere in Skaldic poetry ""as would be expected of a purely literary alternative to Jörð"" may be notable. Theories have been proposed that Fjörgyn may represent an extension of an earlier Proto-Indo-European thunder or rain god or goddess due to Indo-European linguistic connections between Norse ""Fjörgyn"", the Hindu rain god Parjanya, the Lithuanian god Perkūnas, and the Slavic god Perun. Fjörgyn and Fjörgynn In Norse mythology, the feminine Fjörgyn (Old Norse ""earth"") is described as the mother of the thunder god"
"Sun and Moon (""sunnudagur"" and ""mánudagur"" respectively), while dispensing with the names of the explicitly heathen gods in favour of a combination of numbered days and days whose names are linked to pious or domestic routine (""föstudagur"", ""Fasting Day"" and ""laugardagur"", ""Washing Day""). The ""washing day"" is also used in other North Germanic languages, but otherwise the names correspond to those of English. The ISO prescribes Monday as the first day of the week with ISO-8601 for software date formats. The Slavic, Baltic and Uralic languages (except Finnish and partially Estonian) adopted numbering but took Monday rather than Sunday as"
"significantly louder than it would be if heard at the same distance in a non-inversion condition. The ""d"" in Modern English ""thunder"" (from earlier Old English ""þunor"") is epenthetic, and is now found as well in Modern Dutch ""donder"" (cp Middle Dutch ""donre"", and Old Norse ""þorr"", Old Frisian ""þuner"", Old High German ""donar"" descended from Proto-Germanic *""þunraz""). In Latin the term was ""tonare"" ""to thunder"". The name of the Germanic god Thor comes from the Old Norse word for thunder. The shared Proto-Indo-European root is *""tón-r̥"" or ""*"", also found Gaulish ""Taranis"" and Hittite ""Tarhunt"". A flash of lightning,"
"character Thor, based on the Norse god, a magical hammer similarly based on the original Mjölnir plays a major role. The Marvel adaptation endowed the hammer with additional powers not attested in the original myth - especially, that when holding it Thor can fly through air at great speed. Mjölnir In Norse mythology, Mjölnir (; , ) is the hammer of Thor, the Norse god associated with thunder. Mjölnir is depicted in Norse mythology as one of the most fearsome and powerful weapons in existence, capable of leveling mountains. In its account of Norse mythology, the ""Prose Edda"" relates how"
"Thor"" because Thor once saved himself by clinging to it. It has therefore been theorized that the Norse goddess Sif, Thor's wife, was once conceived of in the form of a rowan to which Thor clung. Tiermes is a Sami god of thunder and rain, also called Aijeke or Ajeke and often identified with Horagalles. Tiermes is god of the sky and thunder and lightning, the rainbow, weather, oceans, and lakes and rules over human life, health, and well-being. He protects people and their animals from ""hurtful demons"" and ""evil spirits"" (i.e., trolls). According to the mid-18th century ""Cérémonies et"
"been known in English as ""Shere Thursday"" (also spelled ""Sheer Thursday""), from the word ""shere"" (meaning ""clean"" or ""bright""). This name might refer to the act of cleaning, or to the fact that churches would switch liturgical colors from the dark tones of Lent, or because it was customary to shear the beard on that day, or for a combination of reasons. This name has cognates throughout Scandinavia, such as Danish ""Skærtorsdag"", Norwegian ""Skjærtorsdag"", Faroese ""Skírhósdagur"" and ""Skírisdagur"", and Icelandic ""Skírdagur"". In Swedish, the day is known as ""Skärtorsdag"", with ""Skär"" being an archaic word for ""wash"". ""Maundy"" is the"
"god of war and leader of the Wild Hunt. The Wild Hunt was retold in Dutch with Wodan leading under different guises: ""Gait with his dogs; Derk with his dogs; Derk with his boar; the glowing horse; Henske with his dogs.""). Donar is Dutch for Thor the god of thunder. In Dutch the days of the week are named for Germanic gods, a custom derived from parallel Roman practice. Note that the following days were named through Roman influence, because the Romans found them to be (roughly) equivalent to their Roman deities: However other ancient deities are Druidic, Celtic and"
"analogy for Perun, the supreme Slavic god of storms, thunder and lightning bolts. In many Slavic countries Elijah is known as Elijah the Thunderer (""Ilija Gromovnik""), who drives the heavens in a chariot and administers rain and snow, thus actually taking the place of Perun in popular beliefs. Perun is also sometimes conflated with the legendary hero Elijah of Murom. The feast of St. Elias is known as ""Ilinden"" in South Slavic, and was chosen as the day of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in 1903; it is now the holiday of Republic Day in the Republic of Macedonia. In Estonian folklore"
"Perkūnas Perkūnas (, , Old Prussian: ""Perkūns"", Yotvingian: ""Parkuns"") was the common Baltic god of thunder, one of the most important deities in the Baltic pantheon. In both Lithuanian and Latvian mythology, he is documented as the god of thunder, rain, mountains, oak trees and the sky. The name continues PIE ""*"", cognate to ""*"", a word for ""oak"", ""fir"" or ""wooded mountain"". The Proto-Baltic name *""Perkūnas"" can be reconstructed with certainty. Slavic Perun is a related god, but not an etymologically precise match. The names ""Fjörgynn"" as a name for Odin, and ""Fjörgyn"", mother of Thor, have been proposed"
"about Thor, or influenced by native traditions regarding Thor, continued into the modern period, particularly in Scandinavia. Writing in the 19th century, scholar Jacob Grimm records various phrases surviving into Germanic languages that refer to the god, such as the Norwegian (""Thor's warmth"") for lightning and the Swedish (""The good old (fellow) is taking a ride"") as well as the word (""Thor's rumble"" or ""Thor's thunder"") when it thunders. Grimm comments that, at times, Scandinavians often ""no longer liked to utter the god's real name, or they wished to extol his fatherly goodness"". Thor remained pictured as a red-bearded figure,"