Tuesday, the third day of the week, is so called from Tivesdæg, the day of Tiw, the Anglo-Saxon name for the god of war (see TYR).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 319
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Tuesday, the third day of the week, is so called from Tivesdæg, the day of Tiw, the Anglo-Saxon name for the god of war (see TYR).