| Display title | Week Day Symbols |
| Default sort key | Week Day Symbols |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Today, there are eight names for the days of the week in standard German, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstag, Freitag, and Samstag or Sonnabend. Dialects have other names, but we will not concern ourselves with those names. However, in old documents, scribes often used symbols to indicate the days of the week instead of writing the entire name. These symbols are not abbreviations and each has other uses, such as representing metals and planets (hence, their association with the days of the week). These images are from a church book in Bavaria from around 1715. The symbols are: |