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{{Gerīmbōc gēaresdaga|Eastermonað}}

'''Eastermonað''' is se [[feorða]] [[monaþ]] þæs [[gear]]es in þære [[Gregorisce gerīmbōc|Gregoriscan gerīmbēc]] and fēoƿera ān mid þǣre lengþe 30 [[dæg|dagas]].

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]].
[[Biliþ:Limbourg brothers - Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry - Avril (April) - WGA13021.jpg|thumb|200 px|right|''Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry'', ''Ēastermōnaþ'']]
Se nama is ofgangen from þǣm [[Lǣden]]an ''aprilis'', ǣghƿæðer ge of þǣm Lǣdenan ƿorde ''aperire'', þe mǣnþ "tō openienne", geƿēne referring to growing plants in [[Lencten (tīd)|lencten]], ge of þǣm [[Etruscisc sprǣc|Etrusciscum]] naman ''Apru'' for [[Aphrodite]].

Ēastermōnaþ ƿæs on frymþlicum se ōðer mōnaþ þǣre [[Rōmānisc gerīmbōc|Rōmāniscan gerīmbēc]] and hæfde 29 dagas. [[Iulius Cāsere|Iulies Cāseres]] gerīmbōce [[Iulianisce gerīmbōc|ānīƿung]] in [[45 BCE]] resulted in April having 30 days and becoming the fourth mōnaþ, for þǣm þe þæt gēar nū ongann in [[Ǣfter Gēol]]e.

In þǣre [[Iapanisce gerīmbōc|ealdan Iapaniscan gerīmbēc]], is se mōnaþ ''Uzuki'' (卯月).

== 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]]'', [[Geoffrey Chaucer|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.

* ''[[Spring]]'' - [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]]

: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.


== Belimpas in Ēastermōnaþ ==
* [[Ēastermōnþes Sottes Dæg]] gelimpþ on [[Ēastermōnaþ 1|1um Ēastermōnþe]].
* [[Easter]] gelimpþ on [[Sunnandæg]]e betƿēonan 22um Hrēþmōnþe and [[Ēastermōnaþ 25|25um Ēastermōnþe]] ymbhæbbendlīċe in [[Western Crīstendōm|Ƿesternum Crīstendōme]], and betƿēonan [[Ēastermōnaþ 4|4um Ēastermōnþe]] and [[Þrimilcemōnaþ 8|8um Þrimilcemōnþe]] ymbhæbbendlīce in [[Eastern Orthodox]] Ciriċum.
* Ēastermōnaþ is National [[Autism]] Awareness Month in þǣm [[Geānlǣhtan Rīcu American|Geānlǣhtra Rīcum American]]
* In þǣre [[Īrisc gerīmbōc|Īriscan gerīmbēc]] hātte se mōnaþ '''Aibreān''' and is se þridda and sīðemesta mōnaþ [[Lencten (tīd)|Lenctenes]].

== Trivia ==
* ''Ēastermōnaþ'' onginþ on þǣm ilcan dæge þǣre ƿuce sƿā ''Mǣdmōnaþ'' in eallum gēarum and ēac ''se æfterra Gēola'' in bisesum.

* Ēastermōnþes [[blōstm]] is þæt [[dæges ēage]].
* Ēastermōnþes [[gebyrdstān]] is the [[diamond]].

== Seoh ēac ==
* [[Stǣrlice gemynddagas]]

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