== 聖ビード(8世紀)の記述 ==
8世紀の著作『De temporum ratione』(「時間の計算」)の第15章(De mensibus Anglorum、「イングランドの月」)で、ビードはイングランド人の固有の月名について述べている。
In chapter 15 ({{lang|la|De mensibus Anglorum|italic=yes}}, "The English months") of his 8th-century work {{lang|la|De temporum ratione|italic=yes}} ("''[[The Reckoning of Time]]''"), [[Bede]] describes the indigenous month names of the English people. After describing the worship of the goddess [[Rheda (mythology)|Rheda]] during the Anglo-Saxon month of {{lang|ang|Hrēþ-mōnaþ}}, Bede writes about ''{{lang|ang|Ēosturmōnaþ}}'', the month of the goddess Ēostre:
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