The 15th day of Nóatun was called Cuckoo Day and was a day when it was possible to tell if this was going to be a good year or not. If you heard the cuckoo in the north everything went as planned. If you heard it in the south you could harvest in dry weather. If you heard it in the west it meant sickness and death. If you heard it in the east you would have a happy marriage. The cuckoo was of course a manifestation of a spirit.
The 27th day of Nóatun was the Night of Great Valborg, and this was celebrated in the same way as the Trono Day.
The 8th day of Glítnir was called Bear Wake (No. Bjørnevåk), and was the day the bear was believed to wake up and leave its lair. Höðr was, in other words, back from the grave, reborn and ready to kill Baldr again. We know the religious content of Bear Wake from the myth about Fenrir. The gods could not let the dangerous Fenrir (Höðr) walk about freely, after he returned (i. e. was born again by the Earth goddess), so they decided to tie him up. They struggled to achieve this, and in the process Týr lost his hand. Fenrir bit it right off. Týr was the Sky god, and the Sun and Moon were his two palms, and the eating of his one hand was explained by both the lunar eclipse and Sunset.
All the Sundays of Glítnir were days when all disputes were discussed, at the Thing ("court/parliament"). The king represented Forseti (another name for Týr) and judged in all cases.
The 1st day of Folkvangr was called Source Drinking (No. Kildedrikking), and on this day they gathered around the holy sources. They placed pairs of figures made of leaves, as manifestations of Freyja and her brother and husband Freyr, by the sources and drank the holy water, that was believed to be good for health on this day in particular. The day was otherwise celebrated like the Trono Day.
The 13th of Folkvangr was the Summer Solstice, a festival for good luck in war. They did the same as they had done on the Day of Walking, but the field and meadow was now already awake, so the queen and girls went in procession to ward off any harmful spirits. She sang a song. For example:
“Nu vil jeg syfte (rense) sørken av åkeren min
så den blir både ren og fin;
så setter jeg i den older og brisk,
så den holder seg sterk og frisk.”
(Eng. "I clean the filth from my field now,
to make it both clean and nice,
and I place in it a juniper bough,
to keep it healthy and strong.")
The Summer Solstice was the birthday of both Freyja and the Sun itself. It was the day she rose up from the sea, wearing only a wreath of flowers on her head. She was called Vanadís ("beautiful goddess"), and the Romans called her Venus ("beautiful"), because she was the most beautiful of all the goddesses. The queen represented her, and was given her name. Because of that we still call married women Frue (in Norwegian) or Frau (in German), both deriving from her name.
Freyja was also known as Frigg, a name that means exactly the same as Freyja, and was a daughter of Njörðr and Skaði, the sea and the river that flowed into the sea. They celebrated her birthday by lighting bonfires along the water's edge, so that from a distance it looked as if this long chain of fires was a necklace, known from the mythology as Brisingamen ("the necklace of fire"). It was a custom to dance and sing by the burial mounds on the birthdays, and on Freyja's birthday the queen and young girls also took a bath in the sea. When they emerged from the sea they represented Freyja being born from the sea. They then jumped naked through the flames from the fires, to drive away destructive spirits. It was, in addition to this, a day when young couples were engaged, and the day was otherwise celebrated just like the Trono Day.
Herbs gathered on the Summer Solstice was seen as particularly powerful, and one could pick pebbles from the holy sources and wells, and use them for sorcery, but they had to be picked before Sunrise. It was therefore also known as Hammer Day ("stone day"). Dew from the holy trees could be collected and used as healing potion.
The 22nd day of Folkvangr was called the Day of Cleaning and Waking up (No. Syftesokdag). They did the same as they did on the Day of Walking, only they – as on the Summer Solstice – did it to ward off destructive forces. This day was otherwise celebrated in the same manner as the Trono Day.
The 15th day of Alfheimr was Harvest Sacrifice (No. Slåtteblot), also known as Wake-Up-Day, known from Gaelic as the festival of Lugh (“light”). The day marked the beginning of harvest. Before harvest could begin the grain spirit was killed and burned, or it was – in the shape of a goat made from last year's straw – cut into bits and pieces and buried in the field's four corners and in the field itself. By the time of the Bronze Age the spirit of light and grain had become a goddess and a god, Sibijo and Fraujaz, known from the Scandinavian mythology as Sif and Freyr respectively. The grain deity was still represented by a straw figure in animal form – usually a goat. In addition to this, the god was cut down with a sax, sickle or scythe in a sword dance. Finally a symbol of the god, usually a loaf of bread or (in the most ancient of times) a cone, was cut into bits and pieces and buried with the straw animal in the field/meadow. The grain spirit had to die and be buried in the ground for new grain to come. They took the first straw harvested and made a new animal of it, and stored it in a safe place for next year's Harvest Sacrifice.
The grain spirit, and later Fraujaz/Freyr was killed because this was its/his purpose; to ascend from the black Earth (Hel/Hades), to grow crops, wake up and then be cut down so that man could bake bread.
The 14th and 15th day of Glaðsheimr was called Livestock Weekend. The cattle was brought home from the pasture on the 14th. The 15th was known as Pack Saddle Saturday, because after having brought the cattle home from the pasture on the 14th the home was all of a sudden full of pack animals. In Ancient Scandinavia they lived in long houses, and the cattle was placed in the north end of the building, so that man could benefit from the heat they generated, especially in the cold northern wind.
The 22nd day of Þrýmheimr was the Autumnal Equinox. On this day Höðr killed Baldr again. The sorcerers, wearing a hooded dress or cloak, climbed the oak on the Autumnal Equinox and cut down the mistletoe. They did it because they needed the powerful bough for their sorcery. The religious men (i. e. those who believed in the deities) tried to stop them, but always failed (or why else would winter come anyway?). The Autumnal Equinox was followed by a lent intended to show how sad everyone was, because of the loss of Baldr and his wife. It was forbidden to sing or play music for as long as the lent lasted (until Winter Night). The day also marked the end of harvest. All berries, fruit, corn and other foodstuff were safely indoors by now. To celebrate this they all wore a wreath made from the last straw harvested.
The 1st Sunday after the 1st full Moon after the Autumnal Equinox was the Winter Night. This was the day the oak spirit, and later Baldr, began his journey to the realm of the dead. It was celebrated like a funeral of the Sun, and we know the religious contents of this funeral from the myth about Baldr's burial. Baldr was sent on a visit to Hel in a boat, because the Sunset was seen in the sea in the west. Small rowing boats or sailing boats were loaded with firewood and were set alight, making it look as if the Sun itself was aboard. They then sent the burning boat out to the sea or down a river, to make it cross the sea/river of forgetfulness and enter Hel.