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Weird: An Anglo-Saxon Week

The Anglo-Saxon god Tiw, or Týr, for whom Tuesday is named.



Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel! / Weird does as she will!—Beowulf (sometime before 1025 CE)


Saturn's Saturday's deity—and god of old age, where I am now.

Sunday and Monday speak for themselves,

Tiw, Woden, Thunor, and Friga for the other days.

Eostre named your Easter for you.

But there's no special day or time set aside for Wyrd;

Fortuna imperatrix mundi, she rules the lesser gods!




Sæternesdæġ, Mensis Februarius 8, 2025

 
 
 

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