Norse
- Where
- Scandinavia and the Norse settlements of the North Atlantic
- When
- roughly 700 to 1100, described mostly in writings of 1200 and later
- What survives
- Runic inscriptions and dated objects are contemporary. The prose accounts are post-conversion and were written by Christians.
2 entries
Every entry here carries an evidence grade, because the distance between the evidence and the subject is the first thing to know about this material.
- The Old Icelandic Misseri Calendar
A week-based two-season year with a leap week instead of a leap day, described by the people who used it and computable to the day for any year.
- Yule
A midwinter season rather than a solstice-day festival, and the reason the Christmas and Sol Invictus story is weaker than it is usually told.