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Calender

Post by jesusgirl4ever » Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:31 pm

In PC, Peter states the month is Greenroof in his letter to Miraz.
In VDT, someone says they could sail home from Ramandu's Island in March.

So does Narnia have its own calender or not? Or is this just an interesting discrepancy?
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Re: Calender

Post by Ariel.of.Narnia » Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:51 pm

I hadn't noticed that! I wonder if there's a possibility of one system of naming is international, while the other is local?
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Re: Calender

Post by resdreamer » Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:57 am

I'd say the fancy naming is probably local while our "march" is international.
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Re: Calender

Post by elanorelle » Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:22 pm

Maybe the Telmarines brought with them the names of the months which might be adopted by others, and the Narnians had their own names prior, hence the reason Peter uses them?
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Re: Calender

Post by hobbit_of_narnia » Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:15 am

This always bugged me!! I have no theories whatsoever (for once). I wonder which month Greenroof is...
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Re: Calender

Post by Ariel.of.Narnia » Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:21 am

elecktrum on ff (not affiliated with TLC) has a whole Narnian naming system with equivalents, so I hear.
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Re: Calender

Post by jesusgirl4ever » Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:25 am

Yeah, I know; lotsa people use her naming system. ;)
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Re: Calender

Post by The Happy Islander » Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:34 am

I vote for Norelle's suggestion. :)
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Re: Calender

Post by albero1 » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:37 pm

*hasn't read the books in about a year* Guess who didn't notice this discrepancy? :P
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Re: Calender

Post by Shield Maiden » Tue Apr 28, 2015 9:05 pm

I think it would be most likely (and super cool) if the Narnians had their own month-names and calendar (which so happens to coincide with our world's calendar - 12 months per year, so on); although I'm wondering how quickly the Pevensies would have caught on to that and gotten used to using it - I would think that it was them who introduced the Gregorian calendar month names by accident (even though I'm pretty sure that they would have made an honest effort to remember the Narnian calendar).
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