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Date: 2016-07-03 02:08 am (UTC)
autumnia: Lucy, Edmund & Caspian (Dawn Treader)
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I spent a bit of time trying to figure out the Narnian calendar last year when I was working on my own fics, trying to figure out the schedule of stops that the Dawn Treader made while using Eustace's diary as a guide.

My personal head canon puts Greenroof right in the middle of July and August, so something similar to what you had in mind. I do think the calendar is mostly a direct correlation of ours, but with an added month in the middle of summer.

In VDT, there's mention of the New Year and they do speak of months using our names:

"That's landsman's talk," said Drinian. "There's always a prevailing west wind in these seas all through the late summer, and it always changes after the New Year. We'll have plenty of wind for sailing westward; more than we shall like from all accounts."

"That's true, Master," said an old sailor who was a Galmian by birth. "You get some ugly weather rolling up from the east in January and February. And by your leave, Sire, if I was in command of this ship, I'd say to winter here and begin the voyage home in March."

- Chapter 14: "The Beginning of the End of the World," VDT
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