Today's Problem.

[rinue]

Today, I had concerns.

Concerns about Tuesday.

Not this Tuesday in particular, but Tuesday as a concept.

I don't know how I feel about conceptual Tuesday.

See, the other days of the week make sense to me. Saturn's day, Sun's Day, and Moon's day are logical, and come from the French naming system; Woden's day, Thor's day, and Freya's day are likewise logically Norse, representing the German component of the English language.

But Tuesday. Fucking Tuesday.

I asked people. Asked people on the street. Asked teachers, asked friends, asked enemies and charlatans.

No.

Eventually, I retreated to the world of the Webster's Unabridged and discovered. . .

Thiw's day.

Thiw.

I'll say that again:

Thiw.

Who is this Thiw, and how did he get into the middle of my week? I certainly didn't vote for him. I don't even know who he is, beyond the dictionary's nebulous suggestions that he was a Celtic war god revered by the Anglo Saxons. Internet searches seeking confirmation and additional knowledge have turned up blank.

Fucking Thiw. Even now, when my quest should be over, he torments me.

Comments

[aerie.livejournal.com]

i don't know if this will relieve any of that crushing anxiety *g* but perhaps you could not find Thiw because it is usually written Tiu.

methinks it is the anglo-saxonisation of Tyr, which (comfortingly) places it among our other Asgard-ian loans as the Norse god of war (among other things).

[rinue.livejournal.com]

::dances with joy::

Thank you. Another mystery solved. :)

-Romie