Re: Country Related: Christmas

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU>]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Andrew Smith wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > I forget the proper Brithenig...  Nadiwdad perhaps?  Kernu has Natiwtats
> > and Festa lor Reys.  There're Masses, pagents, decorations, plays, brass
> > band competitions, ale (and applejack) go leor, Royal Magnanimity, etc.  A
> > rather pleasant time of year, stretched out over a fortnight or so.  One
> > would imagine that the _rest_ of Cambria is similar.
> >
> In Brithenig it is called Nadelig from dies natalica, another latin way of
> saying birthday that was adopted in the Celtic languages to mean
> Christmas.  It starts with a traditional candlelit procession to the local
> church on Noeth Pylgant, Christmas Eve, literally Cock'scrow Night, but
> the Christmas day itself is a modern "commercialised" Christmas with all
> the trimmings recognisable anywhere in the Western world.  The Chomro
> prefer to wait for Calen Ianar, New Year, and then really get off their
> faces!  The decorations do not come down until Twelfth Night.

Well, I got that one wrong, eh? :-)  Well I suppose them city chappies up
north would have to commercialise everything, wouldn't they? ;-)  So what
goes on Calen Ianar?

Padraic.

> - andrew.