Name either for Frigg or Freyja, if they are not really the same goddess after all; the former is Odin's wife, the latter the goddess of love (still in the Norse pantheon here). In Spanish, "viernes", for Venus...also the goddess of love. I guess Fridays are romantic.
It had never really struck me before that several of the days retain their association with a quality (the moon on Monday, war on Tuesday, lightning on Thursday, love on Friday) even though the origin of the associated diety is different. Assuming that the Norse got the seven-day week from the Christians who came to convert them, perhaps they kept the idea of the name of the day of the week but swapped gods to suit their own religious antecedents?
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