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Ġēolamōnaþ or Ȝēolamōnaþ (modern English: ''Yule month'') was the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of both December and January.〔Cockayne, Thomas. "The shrine: a collection of occasional papers on dry subjects" p.151〕 The Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede explains in his treatise ''De temporum ratione'' (The Reckoning of Time) that the entire winter solstice period was known as Ġēola.〔(Chapter XV, De mensibus Anglorum. ) ''“Lida dicitur blandus, sive navigabilis, quod in utroque mense et blanda sit serenitas aurarum, et navigari soleant aequora.”''〕 Later on, December became known as ''Ǣrra-ġēolamōnaþ'' and January became known as ''Æfterra-ġēolamōnaþ'', as this later Old English passage points out: Which translates: ==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「Ġēolamonaþ」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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