Eostre

Anglo-Saxon dawn/spring goddess named only by Bede; her month Ēosturmōnaþ gave English 'Easter'. Name links to a Germanic dawn goddess (secondary reconstruction).

Domains

• dawn spring

Powers

• Receive feasts at the spring festival of her month
• Receives feasts in her month at the turn of spring

Sources

• Bede, De temporum ratione 15 (c. 725)
• P. A. Shaw, Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World (2011); reconstructed PGmc *Austrōn-