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- Germanic_calendar abstract "The Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used amongst the early Germanic peoples, prior to the adoption of the Julian calendar in the Early Middle Ages.The Germanic peoples had names for the months which varied by region and dialect, which were later replaced with local adaptations of the Roman month names. Our records of Old English and Old High German month names date to the 8th and 9th centuries, respectively. Old Norse month names are attested from the 13th century. Like most pre-modern calendars, the reckoning used in early Germanic culture was likely lunisolar. The Runic calendar developed in medieval Sweden is lunisolar, fixing the beginning of the year at the first full moon after winter solstice.The month names do not coincide, thus it is not possible to postulate names of a Common Germanic stage, except possibly the name of a spring and a winter month, *austr- and *jehul-. The names of the seasons are also Common Germanic, *sumaraz, *harbistaz, *wintruz, and *wēr- for "spring" in north Germanic, but in west Germanic the term *langatīnaz was used. The Common Germanic terms for day, month and year were *dagaz, *mēnōþs (moon) and *jērą. The latter two continue Proto-Indo-European *me(n)ses-, *iero- while *dagaz is a Germanic innovation from a root meaning "to be hot, to burn".A number of terms for measuring time can be reconstructed for the proto Germanic period. Tacitus in his Germania (ch. 11) gives some indication of how the Germanic peoples of the first century reckoned the days. In contrast to Roman usage, they considered the day to begin at sunset, a system that in the Middle Ages came to be known as the "Florentine reckoning". The same system is also recorded for the Gauls in Caesar's Gallic Wars."They assemble, except in the case of a sudden emergency, on certain fixed days, either at new or at full moon; for this they consider the most auspicious season for the transaction of business. Instead of reckoning by days as we do, they reckon by nights, and in this manner fix both their ordinary and their legal appointments. Night they regard as bringing on day."The concept of the week, on the other hand, was adopted from the Romans, from about the first century, the various Germanic languages having adopted the Greco-Roman system of naming of the days of the week after the classical planets, inserting loan translations for the names of the planets, substituting the names Germanic gods in a process known as interpretatio germanica.".
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- Germanic_calendar wikiPageID "1190200".
- Germanic_calendar wikiPageRevisionID "600658668".
- Germanic_calendar hasPhotoCollection Germanic_calendar.
- Germanic_calendar subject Category:Germanic_paganism.
- Germanic_calendar subject Category:Obsolete_calendars.
- Germanic_calendar type Abstraction100002137.
- Germanic_calendar type Arrangement105726596.
- Germanic_calendar type Calendar115173479.
- Germanic_calendar type Cognition100023271.
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- Germanic_calendar comment "The Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used amongst the early Germanic peoples, prior to the adoption of the Julian calendar in the Early Middle Ages.The Germanic peoples had names for the months which varied by region and dialect, which were later replaced with local adaptations of the Roman month names. Our records of Old English and Old High German month names date to the 8th and 9th centuries, respectively. Old Norse month names are attested from the 13th century.".
- Germanic_calendar label "Altskandinavischer Kalender".
- Germanic_calendar label "Calendario germánico".
- Germanic_calendar label "Germanic calendar".
- Germanic_calendar sameAs Altskandinavischer_Kalender.
- Germanic_calendar sameAs Calendario_germánico.
- Germanic_calendar sameAs Kalender_Jermanik.
- Germanic_calendar sameAs m.04fw_2.
- Germanic_calendar sameAs Q3644058.
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- Germanic_calendar sameAs Germanic_calendar.
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