The Anglo-Saxon months are preserved in a well-known passage of Bede[1002]. I give each name with the explanation. 1, _giuli_; 2, _solmonað_: _mensis placentarum, quas in eo diis suis offerebant_; 3, _hreðmonað_: _a dea illorum Hreða_; 4, _eosturm._: _a dea illorum, quae Eostre vocabatur_; 5, _þrimilci_: _quod tribus vicibus in eo per diem pecora mulgebantur_; 6, _liða_; 7, _liða_: _blandus sive navigabilis_; 8, _weodm._: _mensis zizaniorum_ (‘weeds’), _quod ea tempestate maxime abundent_; 9, _halegm._: _mensis sacrorum_; 10, _wintirfyllið_: _composito novo nonune hiemeplenilunium_; 11, _blotm._: _mensis immolationum_; 12, _giuli_: _a conversione solis in auctum diei_. Of the explanations of Bede some are obvious, others doubtful. For instance one would rather connect February with the word _sol_ = ‘sun’, or perhaps with _sol_ = ‘dirt’ (on account of the melting of the snow), since no word _sol_ = ‘cake’ is known. The goddesses Hreða and Eostre, who formerly played a great part in mythological discussions, are now with reason suspected as being an explanation of Bede’s. _Hreðmonað_ is ‘the rough month’[1003], _hreðness_ is ‘roughness’, especially of the weather; the name is therefore equivalent to the second term for the same month, _hlyda_ (see below). In the case of _eostur_ one might think of some lost name of a season which, like _giuli_, was transferred to a Christian festival. For _halegmonað_ and _wintirfyllið_ see below; _blotmonað_ is the slaughtering month; the explanation of _giuli_ is fatally wrong.