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What does the word Easter come from?

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What does the word Easter come from?

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, Bede surmizes that the old name of Eostur for the month may have come from the name of a pagan goddess named Eostre. However, no one but Bede has ever mentioned such a goddess, so it’s possible that no such figure ever appeared in Anglo-Saxon or early Germanic religion.

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