Blōtmōnaþ
In the Early [Germanic calendars|Anglo-Saxon calendar], Blōtmōnaþ was the month roughly corresponding to November.
The month was recorded by the English scholar Bede in his treatise The [Reckoning of Time|De temporum ratione], saying, “Blot-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 Old English poem about the months, explains: