Primitive Time-reckoning / A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

by Martin P. Nilsson

[339] Þá skylldi blóta i móti vetri til árs, enn at miðjum vetri blóta til gróðrar; hit þriðja at sumri, þat var sigrblót—Heimskringla, Ynglingasaga, ch. 8.

[340] See e. g. [above, p. 70].

[341] Coquilhat, p. 367.

[342] Maass, p. 314. The names are those of the Arabic letters and also denote the years of an eight-year cycle, the years of which are said to be characterised by similar weather. The people are Islamite Malays. Astrology and the calendar have strongly influenced Sumatra and in particular Java; primitive modes of thought however recur under the surface.

[343] Brown, p. 331.

[344] Thurnwald, p. 346.

[345] Ibid.

[346] Routledge, p. 40.

[347] Hale, p. 105.

[348] Hastings, p. 132.