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

[1009] Bilfinger, Unters., II, 125 ff.

[1010] Lið, ‘ship’, liða, ‘seafarer’ have short i and could not give þriliði.

[1011] F. Kluge, Nominale Stammbildungslehre, 2nd ed., 1899, p. 66. The word is used in Coloss. II, 16, and translates Greek νεομηνία; this word really means ‘new moon’, but in later Greek any festival. Hence it is not very surprising that Ulfilas should have put ‘full moon’ for νεομηνία.

[1012] Bilfinger, Unters., I, 7.

[1013] Worm, p. 48; Finn Magnusson in Edda III, 1044 ff., whence the translations are taken.

[1014] Edda III, 1044 ff.

[1015] Weinhold, Mon., p. 23, without giving source.

[1016] Worm, pp. 43 ff.

[1017] Hickes, I, 215, written Blindemanet.

[1018] Edda III, 1044 ff.