Re: Calen marth!

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> At 3:12 pm -0500 1/3/99, Padraic Brown wrote:
> >John Cowan of the Marvellous Powers wrote:
> >
> >> Padrig Bryn yscrifef:
> >>
> >> > Hurrah!  Er.  Apart from general revelry, what exactly does one do on the
> >> > Great Saint's day?  Apart from raising Dragons and wearing produce?  Does
> >> > leek soup come into it at all?
> 
> Wearing leeks or daffodils - the latter is more popular :) is most
> certainly done.  But the other what Andrew didn't mention are EISTEDDFODAU.

Aha!!

> Throughout Wales today girls will gone to school wearing national costume
> and there'll have been precious few lessons, the afternnons are all taken
> up with eisteddfodau - lots of singing, dancing, poetry etc. and extensive
> use of Welsh even in traditionally anglicized areas.

Perpetrating folklore, eh? ;-)  I thought there might be something rather
fun at the bottom of it all.

Padraic.

> 
> Pob hwyl,
> Ray.
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