Editing Friday (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:FriggSpinning.jpg|right|thumb|[[Frigg]] spinning the clouds, by [[John Charles Dollman]]]]
In the seven-day week introduced in the Roman Empire in the first century CE, the days were [[Names of the days of the week#Days named after planets|named after the classical planets]] of Hellenistic astrology (the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-05-28 |title=Days of the Week Meaning and Origin |url=http://astrologyclub.org/days-week-meaning-origin/ |access-date=2016-12-25 |website=Astrologyclub.org}}</ref> The English name ''Friday'' comes from the [[Old English language|Old English]] ''{{lang|ang|frīġedæġ}}'', meaning the "day of [[Frig (Anglo-Saxon goddess)|Frig]]", a result of an old convention associating the Nordic goddess [[Frigg]] with the Roman goddess [[Venus (mythology)|Venus]] after whom the planet was named; the same holds for ''{{lang|goh|Frīatag}}'' in [[Old High German]], ''{{lang|de|Freitag}}'' in Modern [[German language|German]], and ''{{lang|nl|vrijdag}}'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]].