Summer Finding

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Summer Finding

  1. (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, →ISBN, page 133.
      Summer Finding.
    • 1989 A Book of Troth, Eldred Thorsson, Llewellyn Publications, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, page 104.
      Other names for Summer Finding are Ostara and Easter.
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