Rune Calendar
A rune calendar (runkalender or runstav), a perpetual almanac carved on a long wooden or horn staff, used in Sweden from the Middle Ages into the nineteenth century. Each year's structure was fixed with runes: one rune row marked the weekdays, another the golden numbers that place the movable feasts. The staff was read like a printed calendar and was long carried by Swedish farmers and seafarers. The weekday row used one rune for each day of the week, while a second row of nineteen runes showed the golden numbers, so that Easter and the other moveable feasts could be found for any year. Becaus