Hretha

hreþa English Etymology en ang *Hrēþe. Proper noun An Anglo-Saxon goddess. en C. P. R. Tisdale Month of Swallows: Northumbria, England, A.D. 626–633 Edinburgh The Pentland Press Limited 1993 137 https://archive.org/details/monthofswallowsn0000tisd/page/137/mode/1up 1 85821 081 X And now I stand before you as a man who would wish to serve you as warrior at the sword-play. For I have no other use. The words of the goddess Hretha I can hear no more. en Marilyn Dunn The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597–c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife w:Continuum 2009 2010 63 978 14411 1013 8 Alternatively, this group might consist of the goddess Frig, associated with two other female deities (possibly Eostre and Hretha?) – but we cannot be certain that the Anglo-Saxons worshipped Frig. en Linda Windsor Thief The Brides of Alba Colorado Springs, Colo. w:David C Cook 2011 27 https://archive.org/details/thiefnovel0000wind/page/27/mode/1up 978-1-4347-6477-5 The name and image of the Saxon pagan goddess Hretha on Caden’s own shield had been beaten nearly into oblivion. en Yanina Stachura Northern Britain, AD 495 The Sword and the Passion North Charleston, S.C. w:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013 1 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781493701964/page/1/mode/1up 9781493701964 “We ought to build a shrine to the Goddess Hretha in this place.” en Lucya Starza Every Day Magic – A Pagan Book of Days: 366 Magical Ways to Observe the Cycle of the Year Winchester Moon Books 2017 29 https://archive.org/details/everydaymagicpag0000unse/page/29/mode/1up 978 1 78535 567 7 In De Temporum Ratione, Bede states that March was called Hrethmonath by the Anglo-Saxons because they made sacrifices to the Goddess Hretha then. Hretha means fame or honour, which suggests Hretha was a warrior like Mars, who gives us the modern name March. Hrethmonath marks the end of winter, so Hretha could be seen as the Goddess who battles and defeats winter. Further reading Rheda (mythology) en Gods