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- A calendar is, at its most simple level, a collection of labels which humans apply to time. With a calendar, time can become comprehensible and explainable. So it makes sense that, when we look at a culture's calendar, it shows us what that culture considers most important. The Anglo-Saxon Calendar is no different - it's a peek into the pre-Christian past of Britain.
In this video I go over this calendar, and discuss what we know about it. I also discuss what we don't know about it.
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nice video man!
Hi Guthlac i found your channel the previous day and i absolutely love it
Your illustrations may not be as glamorous as other history channels but your analysis is defently very tight i also love how you talk about stuff that very rarely gets talked about by other history channels
Keep up the good work!!
Very well done!
However, while Winterfylleth is held on a full moon, and this is the start of winter, Bede does not say that the month begins on a full moon. In De Mensibus Bede wrote that the month is the passing of the moon's light as it is renewed from (new) moon to (new) moon. So the month begins with the visible new moon, but full moons were times when festivals took place
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Anglo Saxon is very much a suppressed culture . I am now in my seventies and like most of you was taught that the entire Anglo Saxon period was a “Dark Age” and that little had ever been written down about it and what little that survived was all nonsense anyway . Civilisation ,I was told , only began with the arrival of the Normans . This is not true but almost everyone in Britain thinks it is simply because of the way that the school ciriculum was devised by classically educated academics .To this day most people know far more about Greek and Roman gods and history than they do about their own . But your culture does exist . It’s out there , you just have to look for it . Carry on the good work, Guthlag!
Great video! So glad after hearing about it for such a long time I finally get to see it. I like that bit where you say we judge calendars on the basis of our own which is sort of unfair because the current Western calendar is the most accurate in history. It reminds me of something my professors used to say, "The past is a foreign country." It's a good reminder that sometimes the stuff in their society just worked for them and they're not beholden to us
Great video man!
haha I've fairly chatted about this one for a while!
yeah for sure, it's so difficult for us to perceive things as just working rather than needing to be improved upon, it's a good mindset to approach a lot of history with to be honest
I feel like its important to state 'blodmonath' doesnt JUST mean blood month, yes literally it does but 'blod' or 'blot' was also used as 'offering' because of how sacrifices usually were bloody, but as time went not all blots were bloody
And it makes sense that they would give more offerings and sacrifices right before the height of winter to be favored by the gods and spirits
brilliant, even if I didn't understand it . Absolutely facinating. thankyou for sharing. I have subscribed
It's more ironic that the calendar Beade so loved was worse than the one he was critical about in the losing of days.
This channel is excellent, I can't believe it doesn't get more attention
Have you seen the Coligny calendar. A Gaulish Celtic luner calendar that was incredibly accurate and used the 6 day week.
Great informative video thank you 😊.....i just wondered, as it is widely accepted there are 13 full moons per year, how this extra moon was fitted in yearly
He says the fact is that 2 out of every 3 years has 12 moons and they just added a moon every 3 years..
Brilliant videos! Clearly lots of work going into these, and so fascinating.
I appreciate this!
Thanks for making these videos!
Brilliant video
The Anglo-Saxon calendar is lunisolar?
yes
Love the videos man!
thank you for this video, a fascinating topic!
Great video as usual
great video lathguc
Another brilliant video!
amazing video!!!!
Love your vids!!
I believe there is proof that Germanic tribes used the moons to begin their months and for festivals. New moons(first sliver) to begin months, and full moons for festivals. Not the solstices/equinoxes exact dates. My assumption is that modrasnicht just happened to fall on or near the 24th at the time Bede was writing, which isn't the exact date now since the modern calendar was updated since Bedes day(dropped 10 days). I can't recall exactly where I read this at the time though. Also winter began at Winterfyleth which was the first full moon after the Autumn equinox. The first month would begin at the new moon in our late December or early January.
Modranicht was probably the winter solstice night, so the same every year. Changed to the 24th Dec when they were Christianised.
Very sad to hear what the Christians did to my ancestors.
Neel was here 😎 let me put my moon here.🔵 Now nice video.
Fantastic !
surely the new year was Eostremonath? if that was the beginning of spring?
Seeing spring as the beginning is a much later belief, the Celts began their year at the end of November. It sort of makes sense if you think life begins in darkness and only when it's ready breaks through to light
@@SadbhW yeah but the Saxons were not Celts? Guthlac has not provided any evidence that they considered 'Yule' their new year
@@ajrwilde14 no, the Saxons were not Celts, at all. The Celts were a much older people who had been pushed across Europe to the "Celtic Fringe" ie the Atlantic Isles and Northern France and Spain. The Saxons were a Germanic tribe who took over what is now England in the 5th century. Relations between Saxons and Celts were extremely hostile, especially in the beginning.
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