Octave of Easter disciples, with Thomas the Apostle present, on the Sunday following his resurrection. A traditional name in English is Low Sunday, perhaps given this name because of the contrast with the high festival of Easter on the preceding Sunday, or the word "Low" may be a corruption of Latin "Laudes", the first word of a sequence in use in the Sarum Rite. Another name is Quasimodo Sunday, from the first words of the introit in Latin. Easter Week was known as "ebdomada alba" (white week) or "in albis" (in white), because of the white robes that those who had been baptized
Origin of the name Kven to have been connected to a certain geographical area in Norway in one way or another: This might indicate that the term "Kven" was originally used in Norwegian dialects around a rather compact area ranging from Trondheim to Hålogaland. Widely accepted is the view first presented by Jouko Vahtola that "kven" etymologically originates from Old Norse "hvein," meaning "swampy land". Whatever the origin of the name "kven" is, it effortlessly translates to "woman" in Old Norse. Proto-Germanic "*kwinōn, *kunōn; *kwēni-z, *kwēnō" for "woman" had developed into "kona; kvǟn, kvān, kvɔ̄n; kvendi; kvenna, kvinna" in Old Norse. An example of this