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Blōtmōnaþ (modern English: ''blót month'') was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of November.〔Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.144〕 The name was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise ''De temporum ratione'' (The Reckoning of Time), saying "Blod-monath is month of immolations, for it was in this month that the cattle which were to be slaughtered were dedicated to the gods.”〔(Chapter XV, De mensibus Anglorum. ) ''"Blot-monath mensis immolationum, quia in ea pecora quae occisuri erant diis suis voverent.”''〕 An entry in the Menologium seu Calendarium Poeticum, an Anglo-Saxon poem about the months, explains that “this month is called ''Novembris'' in Latin, and in our language the ''month of sacrifice'', because our forefathers, when they were heathens, always sacrificed in this month, that is, that they took and devoted to their idols the cattle which they wished to offer.”〔Bosworth, Joseph. "An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online." Blót-mónaþ. March 21, 2010. Accessed September 20, 2014. http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/040642.〕 ==See also== *Germanic calendar *Anglo-Saxon *Old English 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blōtmōnaþ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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