Haymaking in June. Upper part of an Anglo-Saxon calendar page for June,showing a man blowing a horn,with other men cutting and loading hay into a cart. The text below the illustration is in Latin,with Roman numerals. This calendar includes details of the lunar phases: the kalends (kl,full to new Moon),the nones (n,new Moon to first quarter),and the ides (id,first quarter to full Moon). In the Anglo-Saxon calender,the moon in June was called the 'Hay Moon'. It is thought that this calendar was produced in Winchester,England,in the period around 1030 |