julgransplundring
Feb. 2nd, 2006 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightStolen shamelessly from wikipedia:
Candlemas is the last festival in the Christian year that is dated by reference to Christmas; subsequent holidays are calculated with reference to Easter, so Candlemas marks the end of the Christmas and Epiphany season.
Tonight we un-decorated the Christmas tree. In Swedish tradition, julgransplundring takes place on the 13th of January (a week after the Epiphany), or the next convenient weekend, but we'll be British when it suits our purposes.
Now that it's stripped, we'll dance it out to the brush-pile on the weekend.
Candlemas is the last festival in the Christian year that is dated by reference to Christmas; subsequent holidays are calculated with reference to Easter, so Candlemas marks the end of the Christmas and Epiphany season.
"Down with the rosemary, and so
Down with the bays and misletoe;
Down with the holly, ivy, all,
Wherewith ye dress'd the Christmas Hall"
— Robert Herrick (1591–1674), "Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve"
Tonight we un-decorated the Christmas tree. In Swedish tradition, julgransplundring takes place on the 13th of January (a week after the Epiphany), or the next convenient weekend, but we'll be British when it suits our purposes.
Now that it's stripped, we'll dance it out to the brush-pile on the weekend.
