Ēastermōnaþ/ȝƿ
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Ēastermōnaþ is se fēorða mōnaþ þæs ȝēares in þǣre Gregoriscan ȝerīmbēċ and fēoƿera ān mid þǣre lengþe 30 daga.
April begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Aries and ends in the sign of Taurus. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Pisces and ends in the constellation of Aries.
Se nama is ofgangen from þǣm Lǣdenan aprilis, ǣȝhƿæðer ȝe of þǣm Lǣdenan ƿorde aperire, þe mǣnþ "tō openienne", ȝeƿēne referring to growing plants in lencten, ȝe of þǣm Etrusciscum naman Apru for Aphrodite.
Ēastermōnaþ ƿæs on frymþlicum se ōðer mōnaþ þǣre Rōmāniscan ȝerīmbōce and hæfde 29 daga. Iulies Cāseres ȝerīmbōce reform in 45 BCE resulted in April having 30 days and becoming the fourth mōnaþ, for þǣm þe þæt ȝēar nū ongann in January.
In þǣre Iapaniscan ȝerīmbēċ is sē mōnaþ Uzuki (卯月).
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[ādihtan] Ēastermōnaþ in poetry
Poets identify Ēastermōnaþ mid þǣm ende ƿintera, ac they don't necessarily agree on what that means:
- We start with the proverb
- 'April showers bring May flowers'
- In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer found only cause for celebration:
- Whan þat April wiþ his showres soote (that is, sweet)
- The droughte of March haþ perced to the roote,
- And baþed every veine in swich licour,
- Of which vertu engendred is the flowr; (ll. 1-4)
- Modernized for The Norton Anthology of English Literature
- T. S. Eliot, on the other hand, opened The Waste Land with an ironic glance at Chaucer:
- April is the cruellest month, breeding
- Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
- Memory and desire, stirring
- Dull roots with spring rain.
- To what purpose, April, do you return again?
- Beauty is not enough.
- You can no longer quiet me with the redness
- Of little leaves opening stickily.
- I know what I know.
- The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
- The spikes of the crocus.
- The smell of the earth is good.
- It is apparent that there is no death.
- But what does that signify?
- Not only under ground are the brains of men
- Eaten by maggots.
- Life in itself
- Is nothing,
- An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
- It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
- April
- Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
[ādihtan] Belimpas in Ēastermōnaþ
- Ēastermōnþes Sottes Dæȝ ȝelimpþ on 1um Ēastermōnþe.
- Easter ȝelimpþ on Sunnandæȝe betƿēonan 22um Hrēþmōnþe and 25um Ēastermōnþe ymbhæbbendlīċe in Ƿesternum Crīstendōme, and betƿēonan 4um Ēastermōnþe and 8um Þrimilcemōnþe ymbhæbbendlīċe in Eastern Orthodox Ċiriċum.
- Ēastermōnaþ is National Autism Awareness Month in the Ȝeānlǣht Rīċu American
- In þǣre Īriscan ȝerīmbēċ hātte se mōnaþ Aibreān and is se þridda and sīðemesta mōnaþ Lenctenes.
[ādihtan] Trivia
- Ēastermōnaþ onȝinþ on þǣm ilċan dæȝe þǣre ƿuce sƿā Mǣdmōnaþ in eallum ȝēarum and ēac se æfterra Ȝēola in bisesum.
- Ēastermōnþes blōstm is þæt dæȝes ēage.
- Ēastermōnþes ȝebyrdstān is the diamond.
[ādihtan] Sēo ēac
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