Þrimilcemōnaþ

Þrimilcemōnaþ

Þrimilcemōnaþ

Add article description

In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Þrimilcemōnaþ (modern English: Three-Milkings Month) was the month roughly corresponding to May.[1]

The name was recorded by the Venerable Bede in his work De Temporibus (On Time) in about 703, and was so named because cows could apparently be milked three times in one day during this month.[2] According to Bede:

Se fīfta mōnaþ is nemned on ūre geðeōde Ðrymylce, for ðon sƿylc genihtsumnesƿæs geō on Brytone and eāc on Germania lande, of ðæm Ongla ðeōd com on ðās Breotone, ðæt hī on ðæm mōnðe þriƿa on dæge mylcedon heora neāt. the fifth month is called Ðrymylce in our language, because before, there was such abundance in Britain and also in Germania, whence the Angle-people came to Britain, would milk their cows thrice a day.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.77
  2. [2]
    "The Anglo-Saxon Year". wyrdwords.vispa.com. Retrieved 2014-09-20.
  3. [3]
    Bosworth, Joseph. "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online." þri-milce. Ed. Thomas Northcote Toller and Others. Comp. Sean Christ and Ondřej Tichý. Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, 21 Mar. 2010. Web. 20 Sept. 2014. <http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/032085>.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Þrimilcemōnaþ, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.