A calendar in Bibl. Cottoniensis, assigned by Hickes to the year 1031, has the same names, but unfortunately, on account of damage caused by the great fire, nos. 1, 7, 9, and 12 are missing[1004]. The _Menologium Poeticum_[1005] does not translate all the names. The series is:--Januarius, Februarius or _solmonað_, Martius or _hlyda_, _Aprelis monað_, Maius, Junius or _ærra liða_, _Julius monað_, Augustus or _weodmonað_, September or _haligmonað_, October or _winterfylleð_, November or _blotmonað_, December or _ærra jula_. There are missing therefore, probably not by accident, _eostermonað_ and the second month of each of the pairs. Finally I give the list compiled by Hickes:--1, _æftera geola_; 2, _solmonað_; 3, _hlyda_ or _hlydmonað_ (‘the loud, blustering month’, on account of the storms); 4, _easterm._; 5, _maiusm._; 6, _serem._, _midsumorm._, _ærra liða_, _Juniusm._; 7, _meðm., ædm._ (hay-harvest month), _æftera liða_, _Juliusm._; 8, _weodm._, _Augustusm._; 9, _haligm._, _harvæstm._; 10, _se teoðam._, _haligm._; 11, _blotm._; 12, _midvinterm._, _ærre geola_[1006]. Of these variants upon Bede’s list _harvestm._, _hærfestm_. occurs frequently and indeed is attested from the year 1000. In Robert of Gloucester (1297 A. D.) the word means August[1007]. The two others are doubtful: they appear in the first edition of Bosworth’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, which Weinhold used, but are absent in the second, doubtless because the sources are unknown. As far as I can see they come from Hickes, they are missing in Hampson’s Glossary. The Oxford Dictionary says, s. v. _meadmonth_: “an alleged O. E. name for July”. Of _seremonth_ it gives a late example, where the word is equivalent to August[1008]. It is possible that Hickes used sources which have perished in the fire at the Bibliotheca Cottoniensis. The form _searmonað_, so far as I know, appears only in Bosworth, and is perhaps a normalising of the spelling. The name ‘dry month’ (mod. Eng. ‘sear’, ‘sere’) corresponds as badly as possible to June, and is not much more suitable for August. A satisfactory explanation would be given if, as Prof. Ekwall proposes to me, we assume that _seremonað_ = _sceremonað_, _s_ being often written for _sc_ from the 12th century onwards; the name would then mean ‘sheep-shearing month’. Fluctuation in the names of months is seen here also: _haligmonað_ means September or October, _harvest-monað_ both August and September. So far the Anglo-Saxon months present the usual characteristics in the nomenclature, and in the fluctuation of the names. A point worthy of note is the agreement in name with the Gothic _fruma jiuleis_ but difference in position: this is explained by the fact that _jiuleis_, _giuli_, _jul_ is an old word for a shorter season.