Tuesday is so called from Tiu or Tiw, the son of Odin, and the old Saxon god of war and of fame.
Wednesday derives its name from Woden, or Odin, the god of battle, and the chief god of the Northern mythology.
Thursday is so styled from Donar, or Thor, who, as god of the air, had much in common with the Roman Jupiter, to whom the same day was dedicated.
Friday is named from Frigga, the wife of Odin and the mother of all the deities.
Saturday is named from Saterne, or Saturn, to whom the day was consecrated.
99. What year is 1886 by the Jewish calendar?
The year 5646 of the Jewish era began Sept. 10, 1885, and will continue 385 days, as it is an embolismic year. The Jewish calendar is dated from the creation, which is considered to have taken place 3760 years and three months before the commencement of the Christian era. The year is luni-solar, and, according as it is ordinary or embolismic, consists of twelve or thirteen lunar months, each of which has twenty-nine or thirty days. Thus the duration of the ordinary year is 354 days, and that of the embolismic year is 384 days. In either case it is sometimes made a day more, and sometimes a day less, in order that certain festivals may fall on proper days of the week for their due observance. The following table gives the names of their months and the number of days in each:—
HEBREW MONTHS.
| Month. | Ordinary. | Embolismic. |
| Tisri | 30 | 30 |
| Hesvan | 29+[1] | 29+ |
| Kislev | 30—[1] | 30— |
| Tebet | 29 | 29 |
| Sebat | 30 | 30 |
| Adar | 29 | 30 |
| Veadar | (—)[2] | (29) |
| Nisan | 30 | 30 |
| Yiar | 29 | 29 |
| Sivan | 30 | 30 |
| Tamuz | 29 | 29 |
| Ab | 30 | 30 |
| Elul | 29 | 29 |
| Total | 354 | 384 |
[1] The signs + and — are respectively annexed to Hesvan and Kislev to indicate that the former of these may sometimes require to have one day more, and the latter one day less, than the number of days shown in the table.