THE ICELANDIC CALENDAR

Abstract. The Icelandic calendar, which for centuries was the civil calendar on Iceland, has a year of 52 weeks, that is 364 days; this is kept in step with the tropical year, and thus with the seasons, by the intercalation of a leap week some years. The basic subunit is the week; dates were traditionally given by the day of week and a counting of the number of weeks. There is also a division of the year into 12 months of 30 days each plus 4 extra days. 1