Wherefore art thou, aberil?

[davidma]

I have done some digging and found a couple interesting things. Using Frederic Godefroy's "Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle", I have found a couple of examples of northern French spelling where the months of "averil" and "augst" are exactly as written in the VM. Interestingly, both examples are from Normandy. One is from the bailiff of Cotentin from 1394, and one from Philippe de Thaun's Bestiaire from the 1130s. I have attached them below. To my knowledge, these have not been discussed on this forum.