Blōtmōnaþ

In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Blōtmōnaþ (modern English: blót month) was the month roughly corresponding to November.

The month was recorded by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Bede in his treatise De temporum ratione (The Reckoning of Time), saying "Blod-monath is month of immolations, for it was in this month that the cattle which were to be slaughtered were dedicated to the gods.”

An entry in the Menologium seu Calendarium Poeticum, an Anglo-Saxon poem about the months, explains: