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IN searching English and Welsh calendars for sequences of festivals at intervals corresponding with the sun's stations on quarter and half-quarter days, or, in other words, the quarter days of both the solstitial and the May years—the octave year consisting of eight half-quarters—I find another octave year definitely marked in the calendars, and to a large extent still observed by festivals and fairs. The year of British calendars is definitely sexto-decimal, both the solstitial and May quarter days being duplicated, with the striking result that the eight half-half-quarter days coincide within three days of the exact half-half-quarter stations of the sun, the unit interval being roughly three weeks. The interval between a solstitial and a May quarter day being roughly six weeks, the duplicate octave year may be called an intermediate year.
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GRIFFITH, J. The Sexto-Decimal Year of British Calendars . Nature 82, 248–249 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082248a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/082248a0