They were the British Isles (barratanic in Greek) a thousand years before the arrival of the Anglo-saxons.

Scrooge McTrump

It's not just Bede as a source, btw: we also have contemporaneous to that Charlemagne agreeing to the Saxons (in Saxony) that they could keep their month title of "Eosturmonath" for April. So "Easter Month" seems to have been in both Saxony, and Saxon parts of England.

only one correction to my article: votive hares were found in areas where "Eostre" seems to have been worshiped in England-- but not definitively connected to her (that was the editor's edit, my original was more precise).

Steve and I have had many spirited discussions on this: for a slightly different take, here's my Conversation article:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

I have called on AFS to hold future conferences in Canada untiil this madness passes.

Yeah the darn kids keep nibbling her house away! She’ll freeze this winter unless she stops them… but how? Their father is a powerful landlord, and she just an old, poor witch hiding in the forest…..

Next news item will be: Trump defunds national archives….

2. Even if Trump's "I'm king" tweet *is* characterizable as a joke, you're never "just joking." Nobody is ever "just joking." Humor is a social act that performs a social function (always).

"Utqiagvik" (formerly known as Barrow)

I'd love to be involved. As a folklorist, I'd say that all histories are creative histories.....

I'll have something in print on these pseudo-scientific attempts very soon.....