- and fertility.
Besides Old
Norse Þórr, the
deity occurs in Old
English as
Thunor, in Old
Frisian as Thuner, in Old
Saxon as Thunar, and in Old High German...
- and
Middle English Thuresday. It was
named after the Old
English god
Thunor.
Thunor and Thor are
derived from the name of the
Germanic god of thunder, *Thunraz...
- Thursday: Old
English Þūnresdæg (pronounced [ˈθuːnrezdæj]),
meaning '
Þunor's day'.
Þunor means thunder or its personification, the
Norse god
known in Modern...
-
prominent of
these deities was
probably Woden;
other prominent gods
included Thunor and Tiw.
There was also a
belief in a
variety of
other supernatural entities...
- Donar's Oak (also Thor's Oak or, via
interpretatio romana, Jove's Oak) was a
sacred tree of the
Germanic pagans located in an
unclear location around what...
- names. The
other days were
renamed after Tīw (Tuesday), Wōden (Wednesday),
Þunor (Thursday), and Frīġ (Friday), the Anglo-Saxon gods
considered similar or...
- Jupiter,
Baltic Dievs/Dievas and
Hindu Dyaus.
Source of the word 'Tuesday'.
Thunor, god of
thunder and
cognate to
Norse Thor and
source of the word 'Thursday'...
-
Germanic calendar in use at that time. The
Germanic gods Woden, Frigg, Tiw and
Thunor, who are
attested to in
every Germanic tradition, were
worshipped in Wes****...
- brontophobia. The d in
Modern English thunder (from
earlier Old
English þunor) is epenthetic, and is now
found as well in
Modern Dutch donder (cf. Middle...
- mythology)
Taranis (Pan-Celtic)
Tharapita or
Taara (Estonian mythology) Thor/
Thunor/Thuner/Thunar/Donar (Germanic/Norse mythology)
Uacilla (Ossetian mythology)...
