Preface - Terms and Time


The Hour names are based on Middle English and are part of the Divine Office.

-Lauds - Roughly 3am

-Prime - 6am

-Terce - 9am

-Sixt - Noon

-None(nonce) - 3pm

-Vespers - 6pm

-Compline - 9pm

-Matins - Midnight

Bell Names

-Angelus - a carol played before 6 pm Vespers

-De Profundus - a carol played before 9 pm Compline

-Death Knell - For a Male three sets of 3 bells, for a Female three sets of 2 bells, followed by a single bell for each year of age.

Moon Names are based on American Indian and Settler names.

-Flowers - May

-Strawberry - June

-Thunder - July

-Grain - August

Measures

-Candlemark - 1 hour roughly. The time required for a 2 inch tallow candle to burn down 1 inch.

-Hand - 4 inches so when Titan is 18 and 3 or 18-3, he is 18 hands and 3 inches. A hand is traditionally a flat hand, thumb laid along the edge, and the total width is a hand. The last joint of a thumb is the Inch.

-Stone - For livestock and people 1 stone is 14 pounds(6.36kg) So Titans 145 stone is about 2000 pounds, large but not unusual for a Percheron.

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