Freyja is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; in the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century ; in several Sagas of Icelanders ; in the short story Sörla þáttr ; in the poetry of skalds ; and into the modern age in Scandinavian folklore, as well as the name for Friday in many Germanic languages.

The English term Friday derives from the Anglo-Saxon name for Frigg, Frige.

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.

Next to him we worship the powerful goddess, Frea, to whom they also dedicated the sixth day, which after her name we call Friday.

Other notable innovations were the omission of the adjective " perfidis " in the Good Friday Prayer for the Jews and the insertion of the name of Saint Joseph into the Canon ( or Eucharistic Prayer ) of the Mass.

After his victory against the Zengids, Saladin proclaimed himself king and suppressed the name of as-Salih in Friday prayers and Islamic coinage.

He rules independently of Baghdad, not even mentioning the caliph's name in Friday prayers in recognition of caliphal authority.

The fear of Friday the 13th has been called friggatriskaidekaphobia ( Frigga being the name of the Norse goddess for whom " Friday " is named and triskaidekaphobia meaning fear of the number thirteen ), or paraskevidekatriaphobia a concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví ( Παρασκευή, meaning " Friday "), and dekatreís ( δεκατρείς, meaning " thirteen ") attached to phobía ( φοβία, from phóbos, φόβος, meaning " fear ").

In 987 / 988, a seven-year truce was signed with the Fatimids, stipulating an exchange of prisoners, the recognition of the Byzantine emperor as protector of the Christians under Fatimid rule and of the Fatimid Caliph as protector of the Muslims under Byzantine control, as well as the replacement of the Abbasid Caliph's name by that of the Fatimid Caliph in the Friday prayer in the mosque of Constantinople.

Similarly in Portuguese, where the days from Monday to Friday are counted as Segunda-feira, Terça-feira, Quarta-feira, Quinta-feira and Sexta-feira, while Sunday itself similar to Greek has the name of " Lord's Day " ( domingo ).

However, the name of Friday in Old Norse is frjá-dagr instead, indicating a loan of the weekday names from Low German.

In most of the Indian languages, Friday is Shukravar ( or a derived variation of Sukravar ), named for Shukra, the Sanskrit name of the planet Venus.

Quakers traditionally refer to Friday as " Sixth Day " eschewing the pagan origins of the name.

The Urdu name for Thursday is Jumeraate ( eve of Friday ).

Her middle name, Friday, corresponds to the 1887 version of the poem.

Beth's last name is never revealed ; in " Freaky Friday ", she claims she doesn't even have one.

In his 1962 edition of the Missal, he also deleted the word " perfidis " ( Latin: " faithless ") from the Good Friday prayer for the Jews, and added the name of St. Joseph to the Canon of the Mass.

* The Front Page ( 1928 ), with Ben Hecht, made into the 1931, 1945, and 1974 motion pictures of the same name, the 1940 film His Girl Friday, and the 1988 movie Switching Channels

When the end came, which, though in great pain, he met in a resolute and religious manner, he was at his priory of Saint-Cosme at Touraine, and he was buried in the church of that name on Friday, 27 December.

The sovereign's name was also declared in khutbas during the Mughal rule ; Babur was styled ' Zahir-ud-Din Bábar Muhammad ' during Friday khutbas.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

The scientific name of the aardvark comes from Greek ορυκτερόπους ( orykterópous ) meaning " digging footed " and afer: from Africa.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ".

The name atom comes from the Greek ἄτομος ( atomos, " indivisible ") from ἀ-( a -, " not ") and τέμνω ( temnō, " I cut "), which means uncuttable, or indivisible, something that cannot be divided further.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

The specific name comes from the Afar word for " basal family ancestor ".

The name algebraic integer comes from the fact that the only rational numbers which are algebraic integers are the integers, and because the algebraic integers in any number field are in many ways analogous to the integers.

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a-(" not ") and μέθυστος methustos (" intoxicated "), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

Thucydides claims the name comes from the fact that the Strymon flows " around the city " on two sides ;< ref >

It comes, along with the name of the River Aar ( which was called Arula, Arola, and Araris in early times ), from the German Au, meaning floodplain.

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.

* The traditional name Alioth comes from the Arabic alyat ( fat tail of a sheep ).

The name of Achduart comes from the Gaelic for " the field at the black headland ".

The word " agar " comes from agar-agar, the Malay name for red algae ( Gigartina, Gracilaria ) from which the jelly is produced.

The country's name comes from the two regions Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have a very vaguely defined border between them.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

Barium's name originates from the alchemical derivative " baryta ", which itself comes from Greek βαρύς ( barys ), meaning " heavy.

Its name comes from a nightclub in London that is also called Bedrock.