Viking mythology´s reminds

The Vikings worshipped many gods, some of them remind nowadays in the days of the week in the Anglo-Saxon world.

One of the most important gods in the Viking World was Odin, with the name of Woden, which gave origin to the English word and day of the week`Wednesday´, his wife Frigg, gave as well origin to another day of the week and a new word, Friday. Thor another god very popular in the Viking religion or Viking mitology whatever you like, it´s that one who hold a hammer, he was the god of thunder and also gave origin to the name of another day of the week and a new word in English, in this case Thursday. Finally the god Tiw or Tiwaz, god of the war by the way, very important issue in the Viking world as we know, gave as well origin to the word and day of the week Tuesday.

Looking at their gods we understand a little more about the Viking mentality, I mean, for the aspect of them, it seems that they wanted to look like their gods, that is, big, powerful and agressive ones and so did they.

This is probably the most visible Viking influence in the Anglo-Saxon world, but that many people ignore, I mean, everyone are always saying these words, working with these days and for sure the mayority of them don´t know about the origins of these English words. The rest of the names of the days of the week as you´ll know come from the Romans, who spoke Latin and had invaded England as well long time before, from their influence we have; Saturday (the Saturn´s day, day dedicated to this planet), Sunday (day dedicated to the Sun) and Monday (which means the Moon´s day and dedicated to it). I have to say that we could have spoken about the Romans which influence was bigger than the Viking one and this blog had been easier to do it but I think the Viking world is more interesting maybe because I´d like to understand that kind of mentality, that culture and style of life... they lived to fight, didn´t have fear to death and they loved invading, plundering the world without cared anything. I wonder if they had feelings after all, maybe they kept them only for them.

Anyway during the Viking age in England, from 793 AD to 1066 AD, the Vikings had to coexist with Christianity and we can confirm that they accepted the Christian god alonside their own very well.