icelandic is a special case within the germanic languages, maintaining only the sun and moon ("sunnudagur" and "mánudagur" respectively), while dispensing with the names of the explicitly heathen gods in favour of a combination of numbered days and days whose names are linked to pious or domestic routine ("föstudagur", "fasting day" and "laugardagur", "washing day"). the "washing day" is also used in other north germanic languages, but otherwise the names correspond to those of english.