An Old English Day-per-Page Diary Corresponding to the Year 2020. ...This is a day-per-page diary based on a reconstruction of the Old English heathen lunisolar calendar and is designed for practical day-to-day use for the recording of events, thoughts, ideas, etc. Each new month begins on the new moon. The names of the months and days are given in Old English and the month-days are counted in Roman numerals. Under these, the date in the Gregorian calendar is given for ease of correspondence. Solstices, equinoxes, and quarterly moon-phases are marked. With the epoch reckoned according to the traditional landing of Hengist and Horsa, the year 1572 corresponds approximately to the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar, running from 26th December 2019 to 12th January 2021, a thirteen-month year of 384 days. The calendar on which this diary is based is observational, albeit requiring an eight-year cycle according to which an extra month is intercalated every so often to keep the solar and lunar years in step. This also determines that the new moons marking the beginnings of the G ola-months and the L a-months always fall either side of the winter and summer solstices respectively. The cycle has been proven from the beginning of the epoch, set at the new moon on 31st December 449 of the Julian Calendar, up to the distant future. At the back of the diary, you will find schemas for the Years 1571, 1572, and 1573, roughly corresponding to 2019, 2020, and 2021 in the Gregorian calendar.
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