The Anglo saxon goddess after which Easter is named was Eostre.
The name comes from an Anglo-Saxon goddess namedEostre. This was the goddess of spring.
Easter is named from Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.
Ostara (or Eostre) was the goddess of spring.
The Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, goddess of spring and fertility
Easter was named after the Anglo Saxon goddess of Eostre.It was originally a pagan festival which was adopted by Christianity.
the Anglo-saxon Harper is called a bard.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was written entirely in Old English, which is also called Anglo-Saxon.
The word Easter is derived from the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ēostre. In ancient Germanic the month of April was Ēostre month, and the goddess was celebrated at that time. Some of the traditions of Christian Easter are thought to have originated in the celebrations of that goddess. The word does not appear in the manuscripts of the bible, and the word being translated as "Easter" in many modern English bibles actually refers to Passover.
Ostara. Her Greek counterpart is Eos.
White Anglo Saxon Protestants are often called W.A.S.P.S, or simply, WASPS.
There was no Anglo-Saxon Goddess of the Moon. To the Anglo-Saxons, the moon was male, the sun female. The sun Goddess is named Sunne (sometimes Sunna or Sol) and the moon God's name is Mona (sometimes Mani). Yes, really. In Old English, -a on the end of a name designated the masculine gender.
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