| Antiqui Anglorum populi [...] annum totum in duo tempora, hiemis et aestatis dispertiebant, sex menses [...] aestati tribuendo, sex reliquos hiemi; unde et mensem, quo hiemalia tempora incipiebant, Ƿintirfylliþ appellabant, composito nomine ab hieme et plenilunio, quia videlicet a plenilunio ejusdem mensis hiems sortiretur initium [...] Ƿintirfylliþ potest dici compositio novo nomine hiemi plenium.[2]
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The old English people split the year into two seasons, summer and winter, placing six months — during which the days are longer than the nights — in summer, and the other six in winter. They called the month when the winter season began Ƿintirfylliþ, a word composed of "winter" and "full moon", because winter began on the first full moon of that month.
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