THE ICELANDIC CALENDAR
Abstract. The Icelandic calendar, which for centuries was the civil calendar on Iceland, has a year of 52 weeks, i.e. 364 days; this is kept in step with the tropical year, and thus with the seasons, by the intercalation of a leap week some years. The basic subunit is the week; dates were traditiona...
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| Summary: | Abstract. The Icelandic calendar, which for centuries was the civil calendar on Iceland, has a year of 52 weeks, i.e. 364 days; this is kept in step with the tropical year, and thus with the seasons, by the intercalation of a leap week some years. The basic subunit is the week; dates were traditionally given by the day of week and a counting of the number of weeks. There is also a division of the year into 12 months of 30 days each plus 4 extra days. 1. |
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