The Origin of the Seven-day Week in Scandinavia: Part 1: The Theophoric Day-names
Lasse Christian Arboe Sonne
Some scholars have contended that the seven-day week in Scandinavia predates introduction of Christianity. This argument has had its basis fact four seven vernacular day-names include names ancestral gods and goddesses, respectively Týr, Óðinn, Þórr, Frigg. In present article is taken up for reconsideration. The use theophoric by Church England Germany at time Christianity into (c. 950-1100) surveyed detail. On this basis, it proposed institutions would not resisted such newly Christianized Scandinavia.
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia