Comments on: Rune calendars

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:10:08 +0000

Thanks a lot for the links! I have a book about the Franks casket, but I don't remember that the author found a rune calendar on it, even when his piece of a rune calendar was the start of my investigation of the subject.

By: westgermaic

westgermaic — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:53:51 +0000

A good read been looking into runic calendars and such for a while, other readers may find theses websites of useful.
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_025/25_256_332.pdf
The southesk and other rune prime-staves. Also stumble on this site the Franks Casket A Magic Spell, “powered by” a Luni-Solar Calendar.
http://www.franks-casket.de/english/extro02.html

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:51:58 +0000

Thanks for the extra info, appreciated.

By: -jb-

-jb- — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:54:38 +0000

Very nice article, I have been studying the rune-staves for some years and there were some facts I had not run into before. The “Golden numbers” of the lunar cycle are marked in Scandinavia with the 16 runes of the futhark + three additional runes (arlaug, tvimadr and belgthorn). The feast days marked vary of course according to region, what saints are venerated there, and when the different works of the farm took place. In southern Finland, for instance, harvest began at st.Laurentius day, and was expected to be over by Michaelmas, when the farm hands got their holidays.

Here is a table with a cycle of 504 years, used for calculating the position of Easter:

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:P%C3%A5sktavla_ur_Liljegrens_Runl%C3%A4ra_(ur_Sverige_Runinskrifter).png

By: Cipollina

Cipollina — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:45:39 +0000

I just wanted to make you aware of the fact that Arild Hauge’s site is in Norwegian and some English, not Swedish.