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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 215 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse See also:Frigg,—the dreg, See also:day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)  , the See also:sixth See also:day of the See also:week, corresponding to the See also:Roman See also:Dies Veneris, the See also:French Vendredi and See also:Italian Venerdi . The See also:ill-See also:luck associated with the day undoubtedly arose from its connexion with the Crucifixion; for the See also:ancient Scandinavian peoples regarded it as the luckiest day of the week . By the Western and Eastern Churches the Fridays throughout the See also:year, except when See also:Christmas falls on that day, have ever been observed as days of fast in memory of the See also:Passion . The See also:special day on which the Passion of See also:Christ is annually commemorated is known as See also:Good See also:Friday (q.v.) . According to See also:Mahommedan tradition, Friday, which is the Moslem See also:Sabbath, was the day on which See also:Adam was created, entered See also:Paradise and was expelled, and it was the day of his repentance, the day of his See also:death, and will be the Day of Resurrection .

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