Modraniht (Old English "Mothers-night") was an event held at New Years Day by the pagan Angles where a sacrifice is made. The event is attested by the medieval English historian Bede
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Modraniht (Old English "Mothers-night") was an event held at New Years Day by the pagan Angles where a sacrifice is made. The event is attested by the medieval English historian Bede
Bede
Bede , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.... in chapter 13 of his 8th century Latin work De temporum ratione
De temporum ratione
De temporum ratione is a treatise written in Latin by the Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon monk Bede in 725. The treatise includes an introduction to the traditional ancient and medieval view of the cosmos, including an explanation of how the spherical earth influenced the changing length of daylight, of how the seasonal motion of the Sun and Mo... .
Rudolf Simek is an Austria German studies and Philologian.Simek studied German literature, history, philosophy and Catholic theology in the University of Vienna.... says that Modraniht "as a Germanic sacrificial festival should be associated with the Matron cult of the West Germanic peoples on the one hand, and to the dísablót
Dísablót
The D?sabl?t was the bl?t which was held in honour of the female powers called d?sir , from pre-historic times until Christianization in Scandinavia.... and the Disting
Disting
The Disting is an annual market which is held in Uppsala, Sweden, since pre-historic times. The name originally referred to the great assembly called the Thing of all Swedes, and it is derived from the fact that both the market and the thing were held in conjunction with the D?sabl?t, the great bl?ts for female powers called d?sir a... already known from medieval Scandinavia on the other hand and is chronologically seen as a connecting link between these forms of Germanic cult
Germanic paganism
Germanic paganism refers to the religion beliefs of the Germanic peoples preceding Christianization. The best documented version of the Germanic pagan religions is 10th and 11th century Norse paganism, though other information can be found from Anglo-Saxon paganism and Continental Germanic mythology.... ."
