{"id":1493,"date":"2016-04-19T18:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:58:47","slug":"moveable-feastdays-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/moveable-feastdays-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Moveable Feastdays in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many times in the Norwegian Church Records, a minister recorded the date of an event by the name of the fixed or moveable feast day which is based on the liturgical year (the church year) rather than the Julian or Gregorian date that we would recognize. In addition to this, the record is normally in Latin.<\/p>\n

To recognize a Moveable Feast Day that you see in a record, we need some sort of conversion. Fortunately, someone has done this tedious work for us and we can easily find the right date in several sources.<\/p>\n

I normally use the Norwegian calendar at\u00a0 http:\/\/trinitatis.no\/<\/a>\u00a0Here you enter the year in question in the field that reads “\u00c5r”.<\/p>\n

Family search has one at \u00a0https:\/\/familysearch.org\/wiki\/en\/Moveable_Feast_Day_Calendar_for_Norway<\/a><\/p>\n

I notice that these two calendars do not always list all the Feastdays. If you don’t find the one you look for in one, you might try the other.<\/p>\n

I suggest you go to either of these sources, choose a random year and familiarize you with the Latin words that you might find in the church records.<\/p>\n

Here are a few words that appear\u00a0frequently in the records (I have also collected these in my Norwegian Genealogy Dictionary<\/a>):<\/p>\n