Ġēolamonaþ

Ġēolamōnaþ or Ȝēolamōnaþ (modern English: Yule month) was the Anglo-Saxon name for the months of both December and January.Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.151 The Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede explains in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time) that the entire winter solstice period was known as Ġēola. Later on, December became known as Ǣrra-ġēolamōnaþ and January became known as Æfterra-ġēolamōnaþ, as this later Old English passage points out:

Which translates:

See also

Germanic calendar Anglo-Saxon Old English

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