- Anglo-Saxons had held
feasts in her
honour during the
month named after her:
Ēosturmōnaþ (April), and that this
became the
English name for the
Paschal season:...
- Anglo-Saxon monk and
scholar Bede
recorded in his The
Reckoning of Time that
Ēosturmōnaþ (Old
English for 'Month of Ēostre',
translated in Bede's time as "Paschal...
- and April) of the Old
English calendar bear the
names Hrēþmōnaþ and
Ēosturmōnaþ,
meaning 'month of Hretha' and 'month of Ēostre'. It is
presumed that...
-
describes Ēostre as the name of an Old
English goddess and
behind the name "
Eosturmonath", the
equivalent of the
month of April. Bede is the only
source commenting...
- January, is Ġiuli;
February is
called Solmonath;
March Hrethmonath; April,
Eosturmonath; May, Thrimilchi; June, Litha; July [is] also [called] Litha; August...
- "Bede
gives us no
clues as to the
rituals involved during Rhedmonath and
Eosturmonath, it is
reasonable to ****ume that they
related to the
beginning of spring...
-
Identical to Lith.
alkas ('holy grove'). – *austro-mēnōþ 'Austrōn-month' OE
ēosturmōnaþ, ODu. ostermanoth, OHG ōstarmānōd – – A
compound of WGmc *Austrōn (a...
- eighth-century The
Reckoning of Time the
venerable Bede
wrote that "
Ēosturmōnaþ was Anglo-Saxon for 'Month of Ēostre', the
month that
corresponded to...
