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The calendars were an element of early Germanic culture. The Germanic peoples had names for the months that varied by region and dialect, but they were later replaced with local adaptations of the Julian month names. Records of Old English and Old High German month names date to the 8th and 9th centuries, respectively.
The Germanic peoples had names for the months that varied by region and dialect, but they were later replaced with local adaptations of the Julian month names. Records of Old English and Old High German month names date to the 8th and 9th centuries, respectively. Old Norse month names are attested from the
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Comment: German "Mond" is just a poetic/archaic variant for "Monat", especially as month name's suffix. CORRECTION: "However, Germanic languages have largely kept the old Germanic names for the days of the week" is nonsense. The week coming from Babylon via Jews and Christians, it did not exists in Germania. Names are translations from Planets.
Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples; in a Gothic language calendar of the 5–6th century CE it appears in the month name fruma jiuleis, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding to either modern December or December and ...
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The first definition of the name explains that: “On ðæm þriddan mōnþe on geāre biþ ān and þrittig daga and se mōnþ is nemned on lǣden martius and on ūre geþeōde hrēdmōnaþ.” [2] “In the third month in the year are one-and-thirty days, and the month is called in Latin martius, and in our language, hrédmónaþ.”
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