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In my quest for knowledge, I found a couple of interesting facts that you may want to use at your next party or get together and sound semi intelligent.
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The first is, do you ever wonder where the days of the week come from? Well, it just so happens that Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are all named after Norse gods and wow, yes, a Norse goddess. The days are named after Tyr, Odin, Thor and Frigg, respectively. In old English they are known as Tiw, Wodaen, Thunor and Friija, which to me look more like the days of the week we know today. Not too much is said about Tyr, except that he is famous for losing his hand to a wolf (more on that in a later post). He is a god of war and may be Odin's son. Odin is the main god and his son Thor, the god of thunder. Frigg is the wife of Odin and the goddess of love who apparently gets around in the old stories. She is given the day of Venus, which is Friday.
The second is telling someone to go hell. Yes, we've all said it in a fit of madness. This saying also came from Norse Mythology. Hel is the daughter of Loki and cast down to the world of the dead by Odin. She is the ruler of the underworld and apparently the first one sees when they kick the bucket. So, when the old vikings told someone to go to Hel, it meant pretty much the same thing as it does today.
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