Ethnomathematics at the Margin of Europe –A Pagan Calendar

In 930, at the close of the settlement period in Iceland, a week-based calendar was adopted. Observations of the solar cycle soon revealed errors of the calendar, which were cleverly amended. In the 12th century, the week-based misseri calendar was adjusted to the Roman calendar used by the Christia...

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Main Author: Kristín Bjarnadóttir
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Ethnomathematics
week-based calendar
Roman calendar
Julian calendar
Gregorian calendar
misseri
Iceland
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week-based calendar
Roman calendar
Julian calendar
Gregorian calendar
misseri
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Roman calendar
Julian calendar
Gregorian calendar
misseri
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Ethnomathematics at the Margin of Europe –A Pagan Calendar
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Gregorian calendar
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