Good morning #Mastodon, how are you this #Saturday ?
All the other days of the week are named for the #AngloSaxon gods except Saturdays. Why? Why is Saturday named offer the god #Saturn?
I have a theory, based on no evidence at all, but I like the idea of it.
I think they had no name for Saturday as such, I like to think that Saturday was Ærra #Sunnandæg — Before Sun’s Day or maybe Sun’s Day Eve.
The day where we take a moment to wait for the #Goddess Siȝel (#Sigel) to come #OldEnglish
@Wihtlore Maybe it's just because it was wash day...
@ArienMaia and maybe it was; which is the most likely explanation. But I like to have a little fun with it, they were known for this sort of thing with the names of the month: December is Before Yule and January was After Yule.
I like to play with these ideas and speculative mythos.
@Wihtlore Seems reasonable: a less common German name for Saturday is Sonnabend or 'Sun eve', which Wiktionary says comes from "Middle High German sunābent, sunnenābent, from Old High German sunnūnāband (literally “Sunday eve”) (9th c.), calqued on Old English sunnanǣfen." Apparently more common among older people in northern Germany, and in the former GDR.
@rodgerkibble and the Anglo Saxons have form for this sort of thing, December was “Before Yule”, January was “After Yule”
June was “Before Mild” and July was “After Mild”
So it kind of fits when you fact in some of the old Germanic.
@Wihtlore FWIW, in German "Sonnabend" ("Sun[day]'s eve") is an alternative word for "Samstag"/"Saturday".
@Anke yes :) it kinda fits doesn’t it?
I ran out of space and couldn’t put that in.
Thank you for adding to my thread though.
@Wihtlore In Danish, the day also deviates from from the norse gods and the sun - Saturday is called Lørdag - "lør" being an old word for "bath"...
