![]() Either of ‘Winter fulness’ (ie the winter full moon) or ‘Winter Falls’ would both make perfect sense. But it was interesting to note, scanning through similar words in the dictionary, that fyllo means ‘fullness’, and another word fylð can equate to fealeð, which means ‘falls’. ‘Winter Destroys’ might make sense at the end of winter, but hardly at the beginning. Not only that, but my trusty Old English dictionary says that fylleþ means ‘fells’ or ‘destroys’. But the fact is, the Old English word for moon ( mona) isn’t there. But the accepted version is that it means ‘full moon’, and it’s true that the letter Y was pronounced as a U or OO sound, so it would mean winter full, with the moon part being implicit. It looks like something to do with ‘filling’ and I thought it was maybe to do with rain filling ditches or something. Or you can drop everything and cast off the last of your everyday worries. The ‘Winter’ part is self-explanatory, but the ‘filleth’ part is not quite as it seems – and in fact from my own researches provides something of a mystery. In six daily stages of 15 to 18 kilometres each, the Saxon Wine Trail leads. I know September is technically still summer, but. And throwing some funny Autumn memes into the mix can brighten it up even further, so let us jump right into these funny Fall memes and tweets. ![]() The changeover point for summer to winter came this month, with the first full moon after the autumn equinox, and the Saxons called October Winterfylleþ (or Winterfilleð – in both cases the þ and ð represent a ‘th’ sound. Dressing up in the most original costume you can find in the popular costumes section of Amazon. The Venerable Bede, who wrote a history of the English and from whom we get a lot of our information about the Saxon year, says that rather than having four seasons they had a simpler two-season system based on daylight hours – the months when the days were longer than the nights were summer, and the months when the nights were longer than the days were winter. We’ve been having some lovely weather where I live, but the mornings are noticeably chillier and some of the leaves are starting to turn.
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