Re: The Days Of The Week In Latin

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From: Peter Christian
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:33

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In-Reply-To: <1ibjtkINN3bb@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> sizex@bnr.co.uk (Eric Barber)

> he wonders how it is that they
> emerged from the Anglo-Saxon-Jute invasions of Romano-Celtic
> Britain with 6 Teutonic gods and 1 Roman god.

Good question. Perhaps there wasn't an obvious Germanic equivalent to
Saturnus - certainly the other equivalences seem very obvious.

But don't the weekday names predate the Anglo-Saxon settlement, i.e.
didn't the Anglo-Saxons import a full set, so that it really has
nothing to do with the earlier British population? This means
Saturday is reintroduced by rather than surviving the invasions.

Peter

Peter
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