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notes, while no other source mentions the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre, saddling Bede, a "father of the church, who everywhere keeps heathenism at a distance, and tells us less than he knows" with the invention of the goddesses Rheda and Ēostre would be uncritical, and that "there is nothing improbable
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notes that Grimm's derivation of the name Rheda means that Rheda "could have a similar meaning to the eponymous
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is analogous to March, and details that "Hrethmonath is named for their goddess Hretha, to whom they
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Mythology: Translated from the Fourth Edition with Notes and Appendix
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Rhed-monath a Dea illorum Rheda, cui in illo sacrificabant, nominatur…
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connected with the month '"Rhedmonth"' (from Old
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316:(James Steven Stallybrass Trans.) (1882).
310:London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane.
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72:, it is reconstructed into Old English as
76:and is sometimes modernly anglicized as
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161:." Grimm proposes a connection between
84:is one of three events (apart from the
707:Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
322:Vol. I. London: George Bell and Sons.
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328:(2007) translated by Angela Hall.
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140:(April), named after the goddess
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330:Dictionary of Northern Mythology
364:Wallis, Faith (Trans.) (1999).
221:contains a presentation of the
58:). Rheda is attested solely by
346:Staver, Ruth Johnston (2005).
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382:Wilson, David Raoul (1992).
80:(also "Hrethe" or "Hrede").
366:Bede, the Reckoning of Time
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370:Liverpool University Press
352:Greenwood Publishing Group
110:In chapter 15 of his work
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62:in his 8th century work
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441:Gods and divine figures
348:A Companion to Beowulf
1180:Anglo-Saxon goddesses
662:Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
648:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
270:Grimm (1882:288–290).
218:The Lord of the Rings
169:female personal name
152:19th-century scholar
894:Modern pagan revival
870:Wetlands and islands
720:Old English language
433:Anglo-Saxon paganism
388:Taylor & Francis
384:Anglo-Saxon Paganism
29:Anglo-Saxon paganism
753:Society and culture
696:Finnesburg Fragment
676:De temporum ratione
191:of the same month,
128:). Bede notes that
113:De temporum ratione
105:De temporum ratione
65:De temporum ratione
966:Anglo-Saxon months
288:Staver (2005:209).
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790:Germanic paganism
544:Hengist and Horsa
503:Wayland the Smith
303:Giles, John Allen
279:Wilson (1992:36).
252:Simek (2007:159).
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1052:Æftera Līþa
1016:Ēosturmōnaþ
690:Ealuscerwen
631:Middangeard
595:Eoten/Thurs
334:D.S. Brewer
154:Jacob Grimm
138:Ēostermōnaþ
91:Ēostermōnaþ
41:Old English
1174:Categories
1116:(December)
1112:Ǣrra Gēola
1104:(November)
1076:Hāliġmōnaþ
996:(February)
730:Sutton Hoo
725:Spong Hill
296:References
197:Rhedmonath
122:sacrificed
56:*Hrēþmōnaþ
1142:Mōdraniht
1100:Blōtmōnaþ
1092:(October)
1064:Wēodmōnaþ
1040:Ǣrra-Līða
1004:Hrēþmōnaþ
984:(January)
906:Seax-Wica
901:Heathenry
820:Moot hill
624:Locations
534:Eormenric
308:Appendix.
231:Hrēþmōnaþ
189:Roman god
130:Hrēþmōnaþ
118:Hrēþmōnaþ
97:Mōdraniht
82:Hrēþmōnaþ
37:Latinized
1129:See also
1068:(August)
992:Solmōnaþ
924:Category
860:Weregild
780:Folkmoot
610:Wælcyrge
305:(1843).
165:and the
148:Theories
134:Solmōnaþ
1020:(April)
1008:(March)
810:Maypole
736:Widsith
669:Beowulf
655:Æcerbot
640:Sources
554:Waldere
227:Hobbits
179:*Hrouda
52:goddess
1185:Months
1135:Ēostre
1056:(July)
1044:(June)
840:Symbel
800:Horses
770:Burial
765:Blōtan
575:Dragon
570:Cofgod
549:Sceafa
483:Saxnot
473:Hretha
468:Gefjon
458:Ēostre
394:
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171:Hruada
163:*Hrēþe
142:Ēostre
78:Hretha
74:*Hrēþe
48:*Hrêða
44:*Hrêðe
18:Hretha
1149:Rheda
1032:(May)
865:Wicce
855:Thyle
850:Thing
845:Thegn
830:Rings
825:Runes
795:Hearg
785:Frith
615:Wight
529:Beowa
508:Wōden
488:Þunor
463:Frige
453:Beowa
237:Notes
175:Rheda
70:Rheda
39:from
33:Rheda
885:Yule
880:Wyrd
835:Scop
760:Bēot
683:Deor
605:Neck
600:Mare
590:Ides
539:Finn
524:Ægil
498:Wade
392:ISBN
374:ISBN
356:ISBN
338:ISBN
215:'s
199:and
193:Mars
177:was
94:and
60:Bede
805:Law
585:Elf
493:Tiw
478:Ing
448:Ēse
46:or
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