lilietsblog:zenosanalytic:tattooed-disappointment:Petition to rename the days of the weekThey have a

lilietsblog:zenosanalytic:tattooed-disappointment:Petition to rename the days of the weekThey have a point; where would Moon Day, Tyr’s Day, Odin’s Day, Thor’s Day, Frigg’s Day, Saturn’s Day, and Sun Day be without Christianity :|THANK YOU FOR THIS LINGUISTIC HISTORY TIDBIT I WAS WONDERING WHERE THOSE CAME FROM(in russian and ukrainian, days of week are basically named… start of the week (monday), second day, middle day, fourth day, fifth day, shabboth, resurrection (russian) / and that’s a week (ukrainian))(months in russian are almost identical to english ones, definitely with the same base, while in ukrainian they are pretty sensible ‘snowstorm’, ‘cruel’, 'birch’, 'flowers’, 'grass’, 'red’, 'linden’, 'sickle’, 'heather’, 'yellow’, 'leaves fall’, 'piles’. i like the ukrainian version better)Yeah, it’s kind of interesting from a historical perspective actually, because the middle four are obviously anglo-saxon additions, while “Moon Day, Saturn’s Day, and Sun Day” must be survivals from Roman Britain translated by the anglo-saxons, since those are all, in English, what the Romans called those days. Meanwhile, in the rest of Europe, Saturday is almost always “Sabbath” and Sunday is typically “The Day of The Lord”. So it makes me a bit curious why the Brits were so keen on keeping “Saturn’s Day” after the Empire converted, and why their later English overlords didn’t try to change it after the conquest, or after they converted; I sometimes wonder if they just figured “Satur=Surtr”, drew the conclusion that the native Brits worshiped the Jotunn, and figured they’d rather not piss off the parent of all Fire Giants by changing it :p Though on the other hand, Pre-Christians tended to be pretty circumspect about insulting gods regardless of which tradition they were a part of, so they probably knew it referred to the Roman god Saturn. And “isn’t broke, don’t fix it” is a pretty core sentiment of Englishness. That’s less funny though u_uAnd then of course; the Brits kept the Roman names for all the months, and the English shrugged and kept them too! And what’s a bit peculiar about that is that one of the few examples of written Gaelic(well, Gaelic written in Latin script) we have is from an extremely complex astronomical chart(though admittedly it was found in Northern France. I doubt such knowledge would have been regionally restricted though considering all the trading Gaelic societies did, and where the training of Druids seems to have been focused), so the Brits, as Gaels, had to have had a calendar of their own before the Roman conquest, yet I’ve never come across anything suggesting how they might have organized it, or what names they had for the days, before the Roman system was put in place :T(And yes; the Ukrainian names seems imminently sensible to me as well :]) -- source link

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