The Reckoning of Time
Bede, trans. Faith Wallis. . Translated Texts for Historians 29. Liverpool University Press, 1999. Composed 725. In Latin, in English translation.
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Chapter 15, De mensibus Anglorum, is the sole source for the Old English month names, including Eosturmonath and the doubled Litha.
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- Bede and the Old English Months
- De mensibus Anglorum, the sole source for the Old English month names. Cited from the 1999 edition because a quarter-century of scholarship refers to its pagination.
- Midsummer and St John's Eve
- Litha as a doubled month name for June and July, with no festival attached.
- Ostara
- The sole source for the Old English month names.
- Solstices and Equinoxes
- For the doubled midwinter month and Modraniht.
- Yule
- The doubled Giuli, Modraniht, and the beginning of the year at midwinter.