Eostre
Anglo Saxon · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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
- existence: Bede, De temporum ratione 15 (c. 725) (primary); P. A. Shaw, Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World (2011); reconstructed PGmc *Austrōn- (secondary)