Blōtmōnaþ
In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Blōtmōnaþ was the month roughly corresponding to November.
The month was recorded by the English scholar Bede in his treatise 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: