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Post by Desi Baggins on May 16, 2006 5:24:55 GMT -6
Wow, you kept it up for a year, how wonderful!!!
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Post by Stormrider on May 16, 2006 6:30:27 GMT -6
Vanye:
Thank you for posting the entire Shire Calendar with our current calendar dates.
Now that you have completed the full year cycle, we can just re-use it since all of today's dates are still the same as the Shire dates every year!
Thank you!
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Post by Vanye on May 16, 2006 18:11:14 GMT -6
Storm: Yeah, that is basically true! In Shire Reckoning whatever day an occasion (such as Bilbo & Frodo's birthday) falls on it will be on the same day each year. The day names are as follows: Our days= Shire days Saturday= Stersday Sunday = Sunday Monday= Monday Tuesday= Trewsday Wednesday= Hevensday Thursday= Mersday Friday= Highday That is the order in which they occur Saturday being the first one in their week. The Special Days like; Midyears' day, Leap Day etc have no day designations & this is how they keep the other days coming out right! Since nobody has done this for our calendar things fall on different days each year. So that is what you would need to keep in mind when referring to these Shire dates. Hope that made sense. Vanye
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Post by Andorinha on Oct 7, 2007 21:08:42 GMT -6
page 209 "Companion to Beowulf," by Ruth Johnston Staver gives the following equivalents from the Anglo-Saxon calendar that JRRT used when he composed his Hobbit version of the months:
Shire Name.....Anglo-Saxon Name..........Meaning
Afteryule.....Aefter Geola..........Month after winter festival of Geol/ Yule.
Solmath.....Solmonath..........Sun Month or Month of Cakes
Rethe.....Hrethmonath..........Month of Hrethe (perhaps a goddess)
Astron.....Eastermonath..........Month of eostre (goddess, not much known)
Thrimidge.....Thrimilcemonath..........Month of three milkings of the cows per day
Forelithe.....Aerra Litha..........Month before the summer solstice (Litha)
Afterlithe.....Aefterra Litha..........Month after summer solstice
Wedmath.....Weodmonath..........Weed month
Halimath.....Haligmonath..........Holy month (probably harvest festival)
Winterfilth*.....Winterfyllep..........First full moon of winter
Blotmath.....Blotmonath..........Month for butchering extra livestock
Foreyule.....Aerra Geola..........Month before winter festival of Geol/ Yule
*Winter + filth, sounds like a messy time of the year, slushy-muddy, as October in England/ Shire can be. But "filth" is fylth in Old english, while the ending fyllep may have nothing to do with dirtiness, but may rather come from "fylled" meaning "fulness," or from "fyllan," to "fill-up," "complete," "satisfy."
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 8, 2007 4:48:47 GMT -6
Thanks, Andorinha! Its interesting that you found this information in a book about Beowulf. This is more proof that Tolkien was inspired by Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon elements!
I'm also glad that you cleared up that bit about Winterfilth! ha!
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