Sunday - Sun's day Monday - Moon's day Tuesday - Tyr's day Wednesday - Odin's day Thursday - Thor's day Friday - Freya's day Saturday - Saturn's day Tyr, Odin, Thor are Norse (Viking) Gods and Freya is a Goddess Other days are named after planets. But also... Tuesday - Mars's day Wednesday - Mercury's day Thursday - Jupiter's day Friday - Venus's day
Wednesday is derived from the Roman god Mercury Er... No it isn't. It's derived from 'Woden', an older name for Oden.
Monday is not named after a Viking God.
a type of dinosaur named after the viking god thor
Wednesday.
The day Thursday was named after Thor one of the Vikings main gods.
Monday is named in honour of the moon god.
Thursday
Sunday is named for the Sun GodMonday is named for the Moon God
Monday is named in honour of the moon god.
The viking god of thunder was Thor.
The situation is actually the other way around - the days of the week were named for the gods, the gods were not named for the days of the week. Sunday - sunnandaeg - the sun (sun day) Monday - monandaeg - the moon (moon day) Tuesday - tiwesdaeg - Tyr/Tiw Wednesday - wodnesday - Odin/Woden Thursday - thunresdaeg - Thor Friday - frigedaeg - Frigga Saturday is named after a Roman god, Saturn, not a Norse god.
The English names for four weekdays come from the Germanic/Norse names of gods: Tuesday - Tiw (Tyr) Wednesday - Woden (Odin) Thursday - Thor Friday - Frigg With Sunday (sun) and Monday (moon), only Saturday has a Roman source (Saturn).
It was named after Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking raider who founded the town.