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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!cix.compulink.co.uk!petex
  2. Newsgroups: sci.lang
  3. From: petex@cix.compulink.co.uk (Peter Christian)
  4. Subject: Re: The Days Of The Week In Latin
  5. Reply-To: petex@cix.compulink.co.uk
  6. Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:33:00 +0000
  7. Message-ID: <memo.842319@cix.compulink.co.uk>
  8. Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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  11. In-Reply-To: <1ibjtkINN3bb@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> sizex@bnr.co.uk (Eric Barber)
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  13. > he wonders how it is that they
  14. > emerged from the Anglo-Saxon-Jute invasions of Romano-Celtic
  15. > Britain with 6 Teutonic gods and 1 Roman god.
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  17. Good question. Perhaps there wasn't an obvious Germanic equivalent to
  18. Saturnus - certainly the other equivalences seem very obvious.
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  20. But don't the weekday names predate the Anglo-Saxon settlement, i.e.
  21. didn't the Anglo-Saxons import a full set, so that it really has
  22. nothing to do with the earlier British population? This means
  23. Saturday is reintroduced by rather than surviving the invasions.
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  25. Peter
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  27. Peter
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  29. Peter Christian               peter@gold.ac.uk
  30.                               petex@cix.compulink.co.uk
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