Tuesday


From Tyr is derived the name given to the third day of the week in most of the Teutonic languages:

  • Latin - Dies Martis
  • Old Norse - Tirsdagr, Tisdagr
  • Swedish - Tisdag
  • Danish - Tirsdag
  • German - Dienstag
  • Dutch - Dingsdag
  • Anglo-Saxon - Tyrsdaeg, Tyvesdag, Tivesdaeg
  • English - Tuesday.

(Northern Antiquities OR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, RELIGION AND LAWS, MARITIME EXPEDITIONS AND DISCOVERIES, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS, (DANES, SWEDES, NORWEGIANS AND ICELANDERS.) WITH INCIDENTAL NOTICES RESPECTING OUR SAXON ANCESTORS. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF M. MALLET BY BISHOP PERCY. Page 95 @ http://google.cat/books?id=4nRkd0H5fWsC&pg=PA92&focus=viewport&dq=editions:NYPL33433069128191&lr=&output=html_text)