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Blōtmōnaþ

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In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Blōtmōnaþ (modern English: blót month) was the month roughly corresponding to November.[1]

The month was recorded by the English scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying "Blod-monath is month of immolations, for it was in this month that the cattle which were to be slaughtered were dedicated to the gods.”[2]

An entry in the Menologium seu Calendarium Poeticum, an Old English poem about the months, explains:


References

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  1. ^ Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.144
  2. ^ Chapter XV, De mensibus Anglorum. Archived 2007-07-07 at the Wayback Machine "Blot-monath mensis immolationum, quia in ea pecora quae occisuri erant diis suis voverent.”
  3. ^ a b Tichy, Martin Rocek, Ondrej. "blót-mónaþ". Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary online. Retrieved 11 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)








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