Re: Hasting, was something else.

Renia <renia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Briggs wrote:

Civil Twilight would be the relevant measure - the rule-of-thumb in
England is that it lasts half-an-hour after sunset.

And that's lighting-up time in the streets - but still quite lightish.


But the point is that it is dark after that.

Once the sun goes down, it gets darker much more quickly here in Greece
than it does in England. In England, there is varying degrees of light
for about an hour after the sun goes down but here in Greece, the light
has gone after half an hour or so. Anyone know why that is? Perhaps
sundown lasts different lengths of time in different parts of the world.

It has to do with the angle that the path of the sun makes
with the horizon. Up north for some parts of the year
the angle is so shallow that even with the sun below
the horizon, it never gets so low that the light vanishes.

The point remains, however, that it isn't easy to find
folks in a forest after twilight -- or often even during.

Since those who wrote contemporary descriptions of the battle
certainly knew that it got dark at night, one wonders what
they meant about killing Anglo-Saxon straggles all night long.

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--- Paul J. Gans
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