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Líne 690:
"On Iulius se þreotteoða..."
These all belong to a short text on the appropriate days to bloodlet. Note that in the third example, "dæg" is only dropped after it has already been used several times, although one could argue that date formats are perfectly obvious to read without the day, and "dæg" is not grammatically required - you can just use the ordinal number substantively; BUT, the vast majority of historical examples include "dæg". This fully verifies the "se Xa dæg on MONTH" construction, which would be grammatical anyway, if not idiomatic.
We also find these examples from Alfric:
Líne 710:
The most succinct grammatically correct and attested ''Anglicized'' date format is:
"(þy) Xan (dæge) Xmonðes"
Or:
"(se) Xa (dæg) Xmonðes", depending on required case.
And that's what I'd find most desirable, but ofc "on þone X dæg Xmonðes" is also perfectly fine".
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