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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.