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Description	English: Four of Six plates on a Sami i.e. Laplander Runic Calendar. The Calendar is carved in reindeer horn. Eiríkr Magnússon suggests a date between 1230 – 1391 CE for the prototype of this particular calendar. Source: On a Runic Calendar Found in Lapland in 1866: Communicated to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, March 20, 1877. Norsk bokmål: Fire av seks plater tilhørende en samisk runekalender studert av Eiríkr Magnússon, publisert i 1877. Kalenderen er gravert i reinsdyrhorn. Magnusson foreslo at dateringen er mellom 1230 – 1391 CE på prototypen til denne spesielle kalenderen. http://saamiblog.blogspot.com/ Deutsch: Vier Platten eines samischen Runenkalenders. Eiríkr Magnússon hat ihn erforscht und die Ergebnisse 1877 publiziert. Der Kalender ist in Rentierhorn geritzt. Magnusson meint, dass er zwischen 1230 und 1391 gefertig worden sei. Der Kalender wird von unten nach oben und von links nach rechts gelesen. Die durchgehende Linie trennt die Tagesreihe von den Festtagen. (Ingalill och John Granlund: Lapska ben- och träkalendar. Stockholm 1973. 155-157.)
Date	1877
Source	Archive book not in copyright
Author	Eirikr Magnusson
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