# Ēastermōnað

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**Eastermonað** is se feorða monaþ þæs geares in þære Gregoriscan gerīmbēc and fēoƿera ān mid þǣre lengþe 30 dagas.

April begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Aries and ends in the sign of Taurus. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Pisces and ends in the constellation of Aries.

*Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry*, *Ēastermōnaþ*
Se nama is ofgangen from þǣm Lǣdenan *aprilis*, ǣghƿæðer ge of þǣm Lǣdenan ƿorde *aperire*, þe mǣnþ "tō openienne", geƿēne referring to growing plants in lencten, ge of þǣm Etrusciscum naman *Apru* for Aphrodite.

Ēastermōnaþ ƿæs on frymþlicum se ōðer mōnaþ þǣre Rōmāniscan gerīmbēc and hæfde 29 dagas. Iulies Cāseres gerīmbōce ānīƿung in 45 BCE resulted in April having 30 days and becoming the fourth mōnaþ, for þǣm þe þæt gēar nū ongann in Ǣfter Gēole.

In þǣre ealdan Iapaniscan gerīmbēc, is se mōnaþ *Uzuki* (卯月).

## Ēastermōnaþ in poetry

Poets identify Ēastermōnaþ mid þǣm ende ƿintera, ac they don't necessarily agree on what that means:

* We start with the proverb

'April showers bring May flowers'
* In the *Canterbury Tales*, Chaucer found only cause for celebration:

Whan þat April wiþ his showres soote (that is, sweet)
The droughte of March haþ perced to the roote,
And baþed every veine in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flowr; (ll. 1-4)
Modernized for *The Norton Anthology of English Literature*
* T. S. Eliot, on the other hand, opened *The Waste Land* with an ironic glance at Chaucer:

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
* *Spring* - Edna St. Vincent Millay

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

## Belimpas in Ēastermōnaþ

* Ēastermōnþes Sottes Dæg gelimpþ on 1um Ēastermōnþe.
* Easter gelimpþ on Sunnandæge betƿēonan 22um Hrēþmōnþe and 25um Ēastermōnþe ymbhæbbendlīċe in Ƿesternum Crīstendōme, and betƿēonan 4um Ēastermōnþe and 8um Þrimilcemōnþe ymbhæbbendlīce in Eastern Orthodox Ciriċum.
* Ēastermōnaþ is National Autism Awareness Month in þǣm Geānlǣhtra Rīcum American
* In þǣre Īriscan gerīmbēc hātte se mōnaþ **Aibreān** and is se þridda and sīðemesta mōnaþ Lenctenes.

## Trivia

* *Ēastermōnaþ* onginþ on þǣm ilcan dæge þǣre ƿuce sƿā *Mǣdmōnaþ* in eallum gēarum and ēac *se æfterra Gēola* in bisesum.

* Ēastermōnþes blōstm is þæt dæges ēage.
* Ēastermōnþes gebyrdstān is the diamond.

## Seoh ēac

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