Ēosturmōnaþ
Ēosturmōnaþ (modern English: Ēostre’s month) was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of April.[1]
The name was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying "Eostur-Monath, which we now interpret as the Easter month, comes from [the goddess] Eostre. We now call the Paschal season by her name, thereby referring to the joys of the new festival with the ancient designation.”[2]
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References
- ^ Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.69
- ^ Chapter XV, De mensibus Anglorum. "Eostur-monath, qui nunc paschalis mensis interpretetur, quondam a dea illorum quae Eostre vocabatur, et cui in illo festa celebrabant, nomen habuit, a cuius nomine nunc paschale tempus cognominant; consueto antiquae observationis vocabulo gaudia novae solemnitatis vocantes.”
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