The study of language is endlessly fascinating. Take for example,of the English names for the days of the week. It is generally believed that the cycle of the week, seven days, was used by the Jews and then picked up by Christian and Muslims etc. At first only the ‘Sabbath’ was named and succeeding days were numbered. The Christians turned things around and called the seventh day ‘the Lord’s day. That was all good-and-well but the names we now use of Sunday, Monday, etc derive from a most un-Christian source...the astrological week: the assigning names relating to the seven planets: Dies Solis, Dies Lunæ, Dies Martis, etc. In this case the Teutonic peoples translated Roman god names into Teutonic god names asbeing equal.

All this is quite beside the point and on the surface rather silly. But there you have it and English speakers are stuck with Teutonic equivalents of Roman gods on top of the Jewish practice of having seven days in a week. So, we have:

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Sundæg  -	Day of the Sun *
Monandæg  -	Day of the Moon
Tiwesdæg   -	Tiw is the ancient Teutonic god of war - Mars
Wodensdæg   -	Woden [Oden], the Teutonic biggy - Jupiter
Thunorsdæg   -	Thunor [Thor], god of thunder
Friggsdæg   -	Frigg was Odin's wife, not as sometimes claimed by admirers of Fria - Venus
Saturnsdæg   -	Saturn was a rather unpleasant god who went about eating his own children, something not always acceptable even for a Saturday night out.

* ‘dæg’ = day

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Enjoy your wice, wike, wika, weke, wehha, vika, wecka, wikon. (All Nordic versions of ‘week’).