Þunresdæg
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Þunresdæg is þǣre wuce dæg betwēonan Wōdnesdæge and Frīgedæge. His nama is genumen of þǣm naman þæs Norse/Germaniscan godes Þores.
Be sumum geþēodsumnessum (sēo ISO 8601), āscieppaþ þā gēares Þunresdagas þā wucrīmunge: wuce 1 āsciepþ man swā þā wuce, þe hæfþ þone forman Þunresdæg þæs gēares, and swā forþ.
In þǣm folclican lēoðe, "Þunresdæges Cild hæfþ feorran tō gānne".
In þǣm Geānlǣhtan Rīce, sind cystas gehealdene gemǣnelīce Þunresdagum. This was to ensure a high turnout, as people would have spent their previous weeks wages, paid the previous Friday.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the character Arthur Dent says "Þes must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays". A few minutes later the planet Earth is destroyed.
Þunresdæg is ēac se forma nama þæs hēafodswēges Jasper Ffordes folclicra bōca: The Eyre Affair, Forloren In Gōdre Bēc, The Well of Lost Plots, and Something Rotten (not yet released). Hire full nama is Þunresdæg Nīehsta, playing on the British phrase. Hire mōdor nama is Wōdnesdæg.
[ādihtan] Sēo ēac
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