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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its actually Woden's Day for the old English god of Mercury but then in French it's just Mercredi

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yup. Also spelled Wotan (t and d are kind of ambiguous in younger futhark), and probably known better to a modern audience as Odin.