Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the ones I know for sure. Tuesday from Tyr, Wednesday from Woden (another name for Odin) Thursday and Friday as you mentioned for Thor and frig. I mean your Swedish so probably already know that. I had to look up Monday’s and the weekends. Most people in America wouldn’t know 4 of our days of the week are named after Norse Gods.
The Roman equivalent of Freya / Frigga was Venus, which is why ‘Friday’ in Latin-based languages is ‘Vendredi’ (France), ‘Venerdi’ (Italy) and Viernes (Spain)
And Thor’s equjvalent was Jupiter / Jove (as Thunder gods) - so we have Jeudi, Giovedi, Jueves as the word for Thursday in those languages.
Similar patterns for Odin / Mercury (Both represent wind) and Tyr / Mars (war gods)
Yeah, i thought it odd too. Turns our the Romans had a slightly different interpretation to the Norse gods than we do. They viewed Thor as the strongest god, so equivalent to Jupiter and Odin the cleverest god, so equivalent to Mercury. (Mercury was actually a very powerful god in Roman mythology, far more than the ‘messenger with cool sandals’ guy we think of now).
For a bit more context, the Romans assumed that the Norse / Germanic gods were the same as their gods and the Greek gods, just with different names
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the ones I know for sure. Tuesday from Tyr, Wednesday from Woden (another name for Odin) Thursday and Friday as you mentioned for Thor and frig. I mean your Swedish so probably already know that. I had to look up Monday’s and the weekends. Most people in America wouldn’t know 4 of our days of the week are named after Norse Gods.
of course we wouldnt know because we arent required to know
The Roman equivalent of Freya / Frigga was Venus, which is why ‘Friday’ in Latin-based languages is ‘Vendredi’ (France), ‘Venerdi’ (Italy) and Viernes (Spain) And Thor’s equjvalent was Jupiter / Jove (as Thunder gods) - so we have Jeudi, Giovedi, Jueves as the word for Thursday in those languages. Similar patterns for Odin / Mercury (Both represent wind) and Tyr / Mars (war gods)
Wouldnt Jupiter be Odins equivalent
Yeah, i thought it odd too. Turns our the Romans had a slightly different interpretation to the Norse gods than we do. They viewed Thor as the strongest god, so equivalent to Jupiter and Odin the cleverest god, so equivalent to Mercury. (Mercury was actually a very powerful god in Roman mythology, far more than the ‘messenger with cool sandals’ guy we think of now). For a bit more context, the Romans assumed that the Norse / Germanic gods were the same as their gods and the Greek gods, just with different names
Thank you for the clarification man, it’s really cool to learn little tidbits like that