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Satur(n)day
Wed(Mercury)nesday
Thor’s Day
Sun day, Moon Day, Tiw's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Friga's Day, Saturn's Day
In French and other languages these line up pretty with with the planets instead of the old English gods.
I thought it was Odin Thor Freya Saturn Sun Moon and then some really cool dude named Tiw
It's both. In English, it uses Germanic gods for all but Saturday. French uses the Roman names (Latin etymology instead of Germanic). Sunday and Monday exist in both (with different names for Sun and Moon), and Saturday in Germanic languages is usually not related to a deity (it varies by region though). In English we get a nice mix of gods because we have both Germanic and Latin roots.
Also, to convert Proto-Germanic to Old West Norse, Woden = Odin, Tor = Thor, Friga = Frigg/Freyja (the names got mixed up in etymology, they might be the same goddess), and Tiw/Tiwar = Tyr.
Its actually Woden's Day for the old English god of Mercury but then in French it's just Mercredi
Yup. Also spelled Wotan (t and d are kind of ambiguous in younger futhark), and probably known better to a modern audience as Odin.
Thor’s Day
Mo(o)nday