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Eosturmonathは、現在では「牧神の月」と訳されているが、かつては彼らの女神Eostreにちなんで呼ばれ、その月に祝祭が祝われた。Eosturmonathは、現在では「牧神の月」と訳されているが、かつては彼らの女神Eostreにちなんで呼ばれ、その月に祝祭が祝われた。今、彼らは聖務の季節を彼女の名で呼び、新しい儀式の喜びを古い行事の由緒ある名で呼んでいる<ref name="WALLIS54">Wallis (1999:54).</ref>。</blockquote>
{{Verse translation |lang=la
|{{lang|ang|Eostur-monath}},
|{{lang|ang|Eosturmonath}} has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named {{lang|ang|Eostre}}, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.<ref name="WALLIS54">Wallis (1999:54).</ref>}}
→聖ビード（8世紀）の記述
<blockquote>qui nunc Paschalis mensis interpretatur, quondam a Dea illorum quæ Eostre vocabatur, et cui in illo festa celebrabant nomen habuit: a cujus nomine nunc Paschale tempus cognominant, consueto antiquæ observationis vocabulo gaudia novæ solemnitatis vocantes.<ref name="GILES179">Giles (1843:179).</ref><br /><br />
Before the discovery of the ''matronae Austriahenae'' in 1958, scholarship on this topic frequently raised the question of whether Bede invented the deity.
