Ēostre is the name of an Anglo-Saxon godess according to the eighth-century Benedictine monk Bede's De temporum ratione ("On the Reckoning of Time"). Bede described the pagan worship of Ēostre among the Anglo-Saxons as having died out before the time he was writing. No information regarding the figure exists outside of this brief mention by Bede although some speculations have arisen surrounding her. In 1835, Jacob Grimm referred to Bede when he proposed an equivalent Old High German name, *Ostara, in his work Deutsche Mythologie.