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Summer Finding
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Proper noun
Summer Finding
en Germanic paganism A festival celebrated in Heathenry which marks the beginning of spring, held on the spring equinox.
1985 The Wisdom of the Runes, Michael Howard, Rider & Company, 0-09 159911 3, page 133.
Summer Finding.
1989 A Book of Troth, Eldred Thorsson, Llewellyn Publications, 0-87542-777-4, page 54.
The tide of the spring fetival, Easter, is rekoned as mentioned above - the first full Moon after the spring equinox, or Summer Finding.
2006 Everything you need to know about Paganism, Selene Silverwind, David & Charles, 978-0-7153-2486-8, page 104.
Other names for Summer Finding are Ostara and Easter.