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Good morning dear breathtaking Tooteroonies of light n shadeβ˜•πŸŒž
Thorsday / FrejasEve starting with +deg n birds chirpingπŸ˜‰
I wish yous a fabulous day full of happiness, kindness, optimism, camaradery, excitement, insight, magic, positivity, funs, joys, smiles n laughterπŸ˜ŠπŸ€™ #Thorsday #FrejasEve #MorningGreatings #Smiles
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@C0redump Frigg’s actually
Feb 26 at 6:02amWeb
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@mirabilos proove it/they aint the same
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@C0redump good point.

From a linguistic standpoint, they are clearly separate, though.

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@mirabilos aye but sources unclear 🫣
Written by a monk
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@C0redump perhaps.

We do know with confidence that the Fr(e)i‑ in Friday/Freitag comes from Frigg and not from Freya: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116098060629887260

Everything else… sure. (But even if these are just aspects of the same goddess, that’s the correct name to use in the day-of-week context.)

Cheers! 😻

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@mirabilos according to the lil written records ...
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@C0redump them, and the knowledge of how language develops over time.
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@mirabilos actually kinda fun with old norse, words n things still are in use here in the nordics.
There's very much old norse in the english language too.
Most knowledge about asatro is actually written very long after the "vikings" n when christianity dominated, like Snorres Eddas for example.
The written stuff on stones are more direct n dont give much info abt godlies n deitiesπŸ˜€.
Among my fav ones is the runestone in Râk, a very strange n impressive one 😊
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6k_runestone
RΓΆk runestone - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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@C0redump yes, I know. Sad thing we don’t have more firsthand sources, from before the abrahamification.

That stone is impressive!

I’ve heard that some remote valleys in Sverige still wrote in runes into the 19th century. I can imagine that, the more remote something is (also Iceland), the more can be preserved… or forgotten.

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@mirabilos yeah, not that far from where i grew up runewriting was a thing, tho more on paper than chisel or carving πŸ˜€
I live about 120km from the Râk stone n around where i live is at least 10-20 old stones with carvings, not as flashy pompous as the ones at Uppsal or Gotland but still kinda kewl🀟
Unfortunately Birka is a tourist hell hole otherwise that is just about 150km from here.
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@C0redump nice!

(And yes, I assumed on paper (or parchment or birch rind or something), not in stone or wood ;)

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@mirabilos aye, volatile so not much left of it, same prob as with the stave carvings from viking age
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@C0redump yeah, the every-day things are lost, only the rare monuments stay