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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Main Author: Svante Janson
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spelling ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.214.9219 2023-05-15T16:47:53+02:00 THE ICELANDIC CALENDAR Svante Janson The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.214.9219 http://www.math.uu.se/~svante/papers/calendars/iceland.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.214.9219 http://www.math.uu.se/~svante/papers/calendars/iceland.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.math.uu.se/~svante/papers/calendars/iceland.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T18:00:04Z 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. Text Iceland Unknown
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