Post by Víðarr on Nov 18, 2014 12:04:37 GMT
New Year's Day is the day after 31st October and has no day or 'month' assigned to it. It is its own separate entity, and counts for 2 days during a leap year.
As the ancient Nordic people recognised cyclical or non-linear time, the calendar and days were measured by lunar and solar movement. So, days in this calendar begin with sun-set the day before, and last until sun-set.
To make this clearer - our comparison between the Bronze Age calendar and the Gregorian Calendar shows that the 19th April is the 1st of Nóatun. However rather than the 1st of Nóatun beginning at 12:00am, it will have begun at sun-set on 18th April and will last until sun-set on the 19th April, which marks the beginning of the new day.
Days are measured by day and night, not hours and minutes.
Festivities and events will be added to this thread in due course.