Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons
Philip A. Shaw. . London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011.
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Argues that Eostre was probably a local goddess of a particular group or place, on the Matronae model, rather than a pan-Germanic dawn or spring deity.
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- Bede and the Old English Months
- Argues that Eostre and Hreda are best understood as local goddesses on the model of the Matronae rather than as pan-Germanic deities.
- Ostara
- Argues that Eostre was probably a local goddess on the Matronae model rather than a pan-Germanic dawn or spring deity.