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Where do the names of the days of the week come from?

The English days of the week are named for a variety of figures in English and Roman mythology.

Day	Named after
Sunday	The sun
Monday	The moon
Tuesday	Tiu (the Anglo-Saxon god of war, equivalent to the Norse Tyr or the Roman Mars)
Wednesday	Woden (the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of Odin, the chief Norse god)
Thursday	Thor (the Norse god of thunder)
Friday	Frigg (the Norse god of love and fertility, the equivalent of the Roman Venus)
Saturday	Saturn (the Roman god of agriculture)

Sources: The Guinness Book of Answers, 8th...

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