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In article <memo.842319@cix.compulink.co.uk> petex@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
>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

ok, that's basically what Leo Connolly (connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu)
was suggesting. any ideas on why Saturday was special. was Saturnus
adopted as a Teutonic god or something? Saturday seems to be
special in a number of European languages, e.g. the Scandinavian
languages where it is derived from the hair wash the Vikings used
at the weekends :-).

Eric

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