A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Bulstrode Whitelocke
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of the other days of the week: as, to Thor, whom they called Jupiter,
and, from whence the day _Thoresdag_, which we call Thursday, the Germans say _Thorsdæg_, and the Latins _Dies Jovis_; another mount dedicated to their god Setorn, from whence they call _Setornsdag_, as we say Saturday, the Germans _Sæternsdæg_, and the Latins _Dies Saturni_; another mount dedicated to Sunnan, as they call the Sun, and from thence that day _Sunnandag_{4}, as we say Sunday, the Germans _Sunnandæg_, and the Latins _Dies Solis_; the last mount dedicated to Monan, that is the Moon, and from thence the name of their _Monandag_, which we call Monday, the Germans _Monandæg_, and the Latins _Dies Lunæ_. [SN: The war between Muscovy and Poland.] In discourse upon the way, Schütt informed Whitelocke of the matter of the embassy from the Great Duke of Muscovia to the Queen of Sweden, which was to acquaint her Majesty that the Great Duke had begun a war against the King of Poland, because in a letter of his to the Great Duke he had omitted one of his great titles,--a heinous offence, and held by the Great Duke a sufficient ground of war, and of his resolution to sacrifice the blood of his fellow-Christians to satisfy his wicked pride. Another ground of the war was because a certain Governor of a province in Poland, in a writing, had placed the name of the father of the Great Duke before the name of the present Great Duke; which was so great an indignity, that for the same the now Great Duke demanded of the King of Poland to have the head of that Governor sent to him, and that not being done, was another cause of the begun war. To this the Queen answered, that it did not appertain to her to give her opinion in a matter of this nature, whether she did approve or disapprove of what was done by the Great Duke, but she did presume that the King of Poland would therein give fitting satisfaction to the Great Duke; and that she did wish that |
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