I’ve been working on a Norse calendar for a couple of weeks. My goal is to get a repeatable system that I can build against an active Gregorian calendar and start tracking time with it. During my search for ideas and information, I came across a good site over at http://norse.ulver.com. The site is in Russian, but there’s a page — here http://norse.ulver.com/calendar/script.html — where a guy named Tim Stridman has posted a Java applet — complete with winter/summer and cross-quarter symbols — and JavaScript script to convert the current Gregorian date to a displayable Norse date. I liked it so much that I ported it to php and am running it at the top of my site (that thing in red up there).
While it’s based on his code and algorithms, any mistakes in the php are mine alone. The version I ported was from his JavaScript file, so I don’t have the cross-quarter dates, easter timing, or any of that other cool stuff. I may get to a point where I reverse engineer it and add it in later.
At any rate. Thanks, Tim, for providing cool stuff for the web. Well done.
My translations of the rune poems are coming along quite nicely. I’ve completed the Old Icelandic poem and am more than 2/3rds of the way through the Old Norwegian one. I will be reading the Old Icelandic — both the original and my translation — in Hardwick, VT on February 25, so I’m focusing more on pronunciation than new translations.
