AKA Odin, Wodun, Ygg
Day of the Week
There remains to this day some traces of the worship paid to Odin in the name given by almost all the people of the north to the fourth day of the week, which was formerly consecrated to him. It is called by a name which signifies Odin's day.
- Old Norse - Odinsdagr
- Swedish, Danish - Onsdag
- Anglo Saxon - Wodenesdæg, Wodnesdæg
- English - Wednesday
- Dutch - Woensdag. As Odin or Wodan was supposed to correspond to the Mercury of the Greeks and Romans, the name of this day was expressed in Latin Dies Mercurii.
Northern Antiquities by Paul Henri Mallet, Pages 91-95 @ http://google.cat/books?id=4nRkd0H5fWsC&pg=PA92&focus=viewport&dq=editions:NYPL33433069128191&lr=&output=html_text)
Rendered as other deities
Tacitus considers Odin to correspond to the Roman Mercury.
(The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus @ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7524/7524-h/7524-h.htm, footnotes 64; Northern Antiquities by Paul Henri Mallet, Pages 91-95 @ http://google.cat/books?id=4nRkd0H5fWsC&pg=PA92&focus=viewport&dq=editions:NYPL33433069128191&lr=&output=html_text)