The inhabitants of Lynn and the rest of their countrymen, in the Anglo-Saxon ages, could give more satisfactory reasons, it seems, for the names of their months, than we can for those of ours. December, which with them stood first, was called _Midwinter-monath_, the midwinter month. January, was denominated _Aefter-yula_, that is, after Christmas, or rather, after the feast called Yula, a pagan, riotous, lawless festival, observed at that time of the year, and to which our Christmas succeeded, with no small resemblance. February, they called _Sol-monath_, the sun month, from the returning of the sun at that season. March, they named _Rhede_, or _Reth-monath_, the rough, or rugged month. April’s name was _Easter-monath_, from a favourite Saxon goddess, whose festival was kept at that time, and may be said to be still kept by us, under the idea of the christian passover, which we seem to have dedicated to that same pagan goddess, by our continuing to preserve her precious memory, and celebrating the feast still in her name. May was called _Trimilchi_, from the cows being then milked three times in the day. June’s name was _Seremonath_, the dry month, July was called _Mœd-monath_, the mead month, from the meads being then in their bloom and beauty, or the people being there employed in hay making. August had the name of _Weod-monath_, the weed month, from the luxuriance, or abundance of weeds at that time. September was named _Hærfest-monath_, or the harvest month. October bore the name of _Winter-fyllith_, or winterfall, from winter approaching with the full moon of that month. November, their last month, they called _Blot-monath_, blood month, from the blood of the cattle then slain and stored for winter provision.