I love the notion that King Oswiu lived in a pad like that.
Anyhoo, this bit is plain wrong: "... the Jewish festival of the Passover, the date of which is determined by the lunar calendar, or the monthly cycle of the moon."
Only in ordinary years: because the festival involved "first fruits" its date could be shoved back or pulled forward according to how harsh/mild the winter had been. Therefore nobody knows when Passover fell in the year in question - in fact people don't even know which year that was precisely.
A reminder, dear reader, that you're welcome to comment as Anon but if so, please invent a moniker to appear somewhere in your text ... it tells Watchers nothing, it does help the readers.
Did they really have two masted square riggers in 664?
ReplyDeleteI love the notion that King Oswiu lived in a pad like that.
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, this bit is plain wrong: "... the Jewish festival of the Passover, the date of which is determined by the lunar calendar, or the monthly cycle of the moon."
Only in ordinary years: because the festival involved "first fruits" its date could be shoved back or pulled forward according to how harsh/mild the winter had been. Therefore nobody knows when Passover fell in the year in question - in fact people don't even know which year that was precisely.