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Afterlithe

The month following midsummer

The seventh month of the Shire Calendar, following, as its name suggests, the midsummer feastdays of Lithe, and approximately equivalent to modern July. In fact, it ran from modern 24 June to 23 July in a normal year.


See also...

Lithedays, Mede, Wedmath

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