Solmōnaþ — Cake, Mud, and Lowered Hopes

It is Solmōnaþ. Cake Month. A rare cause for cheer in the damp gloom of February.

In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Solmōnaþ sat where February is now. It marked a time when offerings were made to pagan gods, back when England was less Christian and more heathen. The idea was simple. Feed the gods and hop ...

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