On xii kalendas Iulius byð sunstede, þæt ys on Lyden solstitium and on Englisc midsumor. On 20 June is the sunstead, which in Latin is called solstice and in English midsummer. Today is the summer solstice, which in Old English - as the quotation above from Byrhtferth tells us - was called either midsummer or sunstede - stede meaning something like 'fixed place, point of standing still'. (It's the same element stead as in homestead, or Hampstead). sunstede - солнцестояние (солнцеворот). В англосаксонской поэме солнце - gimma gladost. Gimma - драгоценность, а слово "гладость" русскому человеку переводить с англосаксонского не надо.