- What Friday has, unlike any other day of the week? The name comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the " of Frige", a result of an old convention associating the Germanic goddess
Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the is associated in many cultures.The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern
German, and vrijdag in Dutch.. The expected cognate name in Old Norse would
be friggjar ...
The 13th of the month is slightly more likely to be a than of the . On average, there is a the 13th once every 212.35 days, whereas Thursday the 13th occurs only once every 213.59 days. Distribution of the 13th over the 4,800 months of the Monday Tuesday Wednesday ThursdayIn fact, the is more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week. If Jan. 1 is Sunday then Jan. 13 is a Friday. The next year (52weeks one day) Jan . 1 is a Monday and Jan 13 is a Saturday. Excluding leap year this would be a 7 year cycle and the
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