Re: [tied] Old Names for Months of the year

Glen Gordon wrote:

> A Moeller:
> >Undrea or andrea for December=unknown ethymology. Andrea or undrea
> >means so far as knitting-nedle
>
> Cool, is this like a knitting needle that holds up the sky? You
> know, kinda like a central great mountain or tree or pillar or
> pin that keeps the sky from falling?
>

It is more like in the winter time women have nothing else to do but knit.

Paul Alesu