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The early Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used among the early Germanic peoples before they adopted the Julian calendar in the Early Middle Ages. The calendars were an element of early Germanic culture.

The Germanic peoples had names for the months that varied by region and dialect, but they were later replaced with local adaptations of the Julian month names. 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. As with most pre-modern calendars, the reckoning used in early Germanic culture was likely lunisolar. As an example, the Runic calendar developed in medieval Sweden was lunisolar, fixing the beginning of the year at the first full moon after winter solstice.

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Early Germanic calendars

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The early Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used among the early Germanic peoples before they adopted the Julian calendar in the Early Middle...

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Early Germanic culture

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The early Germanic calendars were the regional calendars used among the early Germanic peoples before they adopted the Julian calendar in the Early Middle...

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Midwinter

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is attested in the early Germanic calendars where it was a period or a day which may have been determined by a lunisolar calendar before it was adapted...

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Germanic law

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Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the early Germanic peoples. These were compared with statements in Tacitus and Caesar as...

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Early Germanic warfare

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BCE. Wars were frequent between and within the individual Germanic peoples. The early Germanic languages preserve various words for "war", and they did...

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History of calendars

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year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first historically attested and formulized calendars date to the Bronze Age...

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Normans

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that became known as Normandy, they originally spoke Old Norse, a North Germanic language. Over time, they came to live among the local Gallo-Romance-speaking...

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Viking Age

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Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia...

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Yule

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between 1136 and 1140. Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples; in a Gothic language calendar of the 5–6th century CE it appears in...

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Wheel of the Year

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Celtic calendar Gaelic calendar Welsh seasonal festivals Germanic calendar Runic calendar Hellenic calendars Attic calendar Macedonian calendar Roman calendar...

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Old Norse religion

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of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples...

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Numbers in Germanic paganism

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in both mythology and Germanic paganism. Along with the number 27, both numbers also figure into the lunar Germanic calendar. Emphasis on the numbers...

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Winter Nights

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Winter Nights (Old Norse: vetrnætr) was a specific time of year in medieval Scandinavia, held 28 days after the autumn equinox. According to Zoega's Concise...

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Norsemen

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North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language. The language belongs to the North Germanic branch...

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First day of summer

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refer to: The beginning of the summer half of the year in the early Germanic calendars The beginning of the summer half of the year in medieval and modern...

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Germanic mythology

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Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. As the Germanic languages developed from Proto-Indo-European language, Germanic mythology...

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Germanic paganism

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Germanic paganism or Germanic religion refers to the traditional, culturally significant religion of the Germanic peoples. With a chronological range...

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Germanic peoples

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into the early Middle Ages. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been defined by the use of ancient and early medieval Germanic languages...

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List of calendars

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This is a list of calendars. Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories...

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List of early Germanic peoples

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The list of early Germanic peoples is a register of ancient Germanic cultures, tribal groups, and other alliances of Germanic tribes and civilisations...

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Runic magic

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is the case from the earliest epigraphic evidence of the Roman to the Germanic Iron Age, with non-linguistic inscriptions and the alu word. An erilaz...

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Heathen holidays

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Christianisation and the introduction of the Julian calendar, the Germanic peoples used a lunisolar calendar, that was used to coordinate heathen seasonal festivals...

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Runic calendar

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are wooden calendars dating from the 16th and the 17th centuries. During the 18th century, Runic calendars had a renaissance, and calendars dating from...

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Old Norse

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Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages....

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Poetic Edda

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the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends. Since the early 19th century, it has had a powerful influence on Scandinavian...

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Germanic philology

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research into the Germanic languages began in the 16th century, with the discovery of literary texts in the earlier phases of the languages. Early modern publications...

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Christianization of Scandinavia

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irreligiosity." Christianization of Lithuania Christianization of Kievan Rus' Germanic Christianity Heimskringla – A mediaeval work that relates the lives of...

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Runes

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specialised branch of Germanic philology. The earliest secure runic inscriptions date from around AD 150, with a potentially earlier inscription dating to...

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