In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Blōtmōnaþ (modern English: blōt ‘sacrifice,’ mōnaþ ‘month’) was the month roughly corresponding to November.Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.144
The month was recorded by the English scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying, “Blot-monath is month of immolations, for it was in this month that the cattle which were to be slaughtered were dedicated to the gods."Chapter XV, De mensibus Anglorum. "Blot-monath mensis immolationum, quia in ea pecora quae occisuri erant diis suis voverent."
An entry in the Menologium seu Calendarium Poeticum, an Old English poem about the months, explains:
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