Loki (Thor 2011) Question
Hey guys! Did you know that Saturday is known as Loki's day?
Loki (Thor 2011) Answers
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lucy32 said:
Yes, I read something about Laurdag being called after him.
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bri-marie said:
That's actually a pretty hotly debated topic, and isn't necessarily historically true.
'Saturday' loosely comes from Logadagr, which is washing day. However, some spellings have it as 'Lokadagr' and since Loki is sometimes spelled 'Loke' people just assumed the two were connected.
It also comes from the fact that Saturn and Loki have many things in common, and Saturday was named after Saturn.
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jennipop22 said:
Actually, I always thought Saturday was named after Saturnus, the father of Zeus in Roman mythology (his Greek equivalent is Kronos.)
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