Easter
I found a thread in your archives about Easter. Some quited the Cruse view from mid 19th century that 'Easter' came from German meaning resurrection in German. Another site with info on that view...
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The Goethe Institute has a different take on it but offers no citations or links to scholarly works on the subject.Of course, the German word "Ostern" and the English word "Easter" do not fit in with...
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Well, if ostern means dawn, and dawn is the rising of the son, and Easter is the rising of Son, it works (in English) maybe even better auf Deutsch; sohn and sonne. But which words in German are used...
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The Lamblion site is a bit overwrought in its use of adjectives and adverbs as intensifiers and therefore suspect. I don't know of any linguist or historian that puts much stock in the mid 19th...
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