02-06-2026, 11:19 AM
Possibly but not necessarily. It depends on why the month names were written in 'plaintext' at all and whether the author understood what was going on in the VM. We don't know.
It may very well have been a fashion. My Upper Bavarian grandparents used French phrases in their conversations though they could not speak French at all. It was a fashionable thing that made you look educated and international, like using anglicisms nowadays. Needless to say, many French words were spelled terribly wrong when written by a German. But that was fine in a private context, the reader still knew what was meant.
I still wonder about the Picard - Northern Italy connection. It shows that imagery and language are not necessarily connected. Things were way more international even in the 14th century, than we imagine.
It may very well have been a fashion. My Upper Bavarian grandparents used French phrases in their conversations though they could not speak French at all. It was a fashionable thing that made you look educated and international, like using anglicisms nowadays. Needless to say, many French words were spelled terribly wrong when written by a German. But that was fine in a private context, the reader still knew what was meant.
I still wonder about the Picard - Northern Italy connection. It shows that imagery and language are not necessarily connected. Things were way more international even in the 14th century, than we imagine.