There is a great deal of folklore, some good some bad, surrounding Friday. For some it is the day when fortunes change, for others Friday is a bad omen. But the one I much prefer is the legend of Frigedaeg. Frigedaeg is old English for Frigg day, the day devoted to the Goddess Frigg, a close friend of the Goddess Venus.
Now here comes the nice bit…..legend has it the Frigg spent most of her days in the heavens…. ‘Spinning the Clouds’.
By tradition Sailors thought that Fridays were bring us of bad luck and misfortune. No doubt for sailors of old, that misfortune came in the form of bad weather. Match that to the old rhyme ‘Red Sky in the Morning…Sailors Warning’, then perhaps the Red Sky and Frigg’s Clouds would be taken as a very ominous sign. But relax, whilst this image was taken at dawn, it was not as far as I can recall on a Frigedaeg!
Location: Barns Ness Lighthouse, south of Dunbar on the East Lothian Coast, Scotland
4th April
© David Oakes 2014
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