Från "sancte Matthei dagh" till "21 september". Kalendariska tidsuttryck i nordiska under senmedeltid och reformationstid
During the 16th century, and thus late in a european perspective, the Scandinavian language usage went from normally giving dates according to the church year calendar (each day having a name of its own, mostly referring to a saint) to normally giving them according to our modern calendar (numbering the days within each named month). The present investigation shows how this transition more exactly
