Saxon deities after which days of the week were named: Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga and Saeter (Seater). Etching after R. Verstegan, 17--.

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The deities are numbered 1-7 in order of the days of the week: 1. Sun (Sunday); 2. Moon (Monday); 3. Tuisco or Tyr (Tuesday); 4. standing right foreground, Woden (Wednesday); 5. seated centre, Thor (Thursday); 6. standing left foreground, Frig (Friday); 7. in niche, right background, Saeter (Saturday)

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The figures of the individual deities are derived from engravings in Richard Verstegan, A restitution of decayed intelligence, in antiquities, London: T. Newcomb for Joshua Kirton, 1655, pp. 55-66.

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Wellcome Collection 11519i

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