The ninth month of the Shire Calendar, following Wedmath and approximately equivalent to modern September. In fact, it ran from modern 23 August to 21 September in a normal year.
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Old English Hāligmōnað represents a 'holy month', a time when offerings would be made from the harvest. The connection with harvest-time is even more explicit in the name for this month among the Bree-landers, who knew this month as Harvestmath. The same Old English element hali-, 'holy', appears in the name of the Halifirien, the 'holy mountain' in Rohan, far away to the south of the Shire.
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