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Solmōnaþ (modern English: ''dirt ''or'' mud month'') was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of February.〔Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.59〕 The name was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise ''De temporum ratione'' (The Reckoning of Time), saying that " Sol-Monath can be said to be the month of cakes, which were offered to their gods”;〔(Chapter XV, De mensibus Anglorum. ) ''"Sol-monath dici potest mensis placentarum, quas in eo diis suis offerebant.”''〕 however, there is no other reference to ''sol'' meaning ‘cake’ in Old English. ''Sol'' is used to mean ‘mud’ or ‘dirt’ in most texts, and so a far more likely meaning is that the sol month was the muddy month, especially given the English climate at that time of year. ==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「Solmōnaþ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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