Norse Calendar
The old North counted time by nights and by the Moon. This page shows today under its Norse name, the Moon, and the feasts of the year, each marked for how far back it really goes. Dates are shown in your own time zone.
Today
Reading the sky…
The feasts of the year
The old sources name only a few feasts and never give calendar dates. Where Iceland's old calendar has a rule (the first day of winter, the first day of summer, the start of Þorri) the dates follow it; the rest follow the Sun. Every feast says what it rests on: In the old sources, Old name, modern custom or Modern custom. Different groups keep them on different days, sometimes weeks apart.
The Moon's turning
In the Gylfaginning the Moon is Máni, a man who drives the Moon's chariot across the sky. Tacitus, writing about the Germanic peoples around the year 98, says they counted time in nights rather than days and held their assemblies at the new or full moon. None of the old sources ties a feast to a particular phase.
The days of the week
The Germanic peoples copied the Roman planet-week and put their own gods in the places of the Roman ones. The Old Norse names are below; today is marked.
Moon, solstice and equinox times come from Astronomy Engine. For the runes and the old texts, see the Lorebook.