“Saturday removal is to the north,
Monday removal to the south,
Though I had but a lamb
On Monday I would it remove.”[76]
Old men called it “the key of the week” (iuchair na seachdain).
Di-màirt, TUESDAY.
The name is obviously enough from dies martis, the Latin name.
This was a good day to begin ploughing upon, and it was ominous of good luck if any of the harness broke and the ploughing was stopped for the day. Such a belief could exist only in the easy-going olden days.