Note 898 — Chapter XII · NEW YEAR CUSTOMS
Reading edition
Bede, D. T. R. c. 17: cf. the A.-S. passage quoted by Pfannenschmidt, 495; Jahn, 252. Other Germanic names for the winter months are ‘Schlachtmonat,’ ‘Gormânaða’: cf. Weinhold, Die deutschen Monatsnamen, 54.