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By Alfred
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.”
This poem is in the public domain.
“just the same as last year, Mrs Sophie?”
watched religiously
on NYE or NYD
skol skol skol skol
more schnapps
skol
Tjugondag Knut & other wonder full
Traditions
Gertrud Svensdotter
She was a wild young wicked one from way back in the day.
Almost like an ancient Pippy Longstocking…
In the English-speaking world,
Hallowe’en is the holiday most associated with witches.
But with Gertrude her witch trials happened
on the Thursday before Good Friday in the 1600s.
Gertrude’s story is actually quite a sad story.
In 1667, a young girl called Gertrud Svensdotter was living with her grandparents many miles away from her hometown. Her mother had died during childbirth and her father had intentions to marry a new woman, MÃĪrit Jonsdotter.
Alone and with a terrible dislike of her to-be stepmother,
Gertrud’s imagination ran away with her.
She accused MÃĪrit of being a witch,
transporting her and several other children to
“BlÃĨkulla” to sin and give their souls to the devil.
MÃĪrit was burned at the stake,
but the stories of BlÃĨkulla continued
for a further ten years
and hundreds were killed as a result.
In the 1800s,
To commemorate Gertrude
young adults dressed as witches
and took the opportunity to cause mischief.
These days,
it’s mostly young children like Pippy (and all genders)
who dress up as witches and ask for candy,
much as American kids do on Hallowe’en.
Then there is valborg or walpurgis
The German Saint Valborg,
(also called Walpurgis in English)
Valborg was introduced in the Middle Ages
and she is still celebrated today.
Bonfires and large gatherings and parties
are today held in her honour.
Originally,
the fire and noise was supposed to ward off
bad spirits and dangerous animals.
These days,
students have adopted Walpurgis
as an excellent opportunity to let off some steam!
and drink copious quantities of schnapps
or vodka or anything, really...
skol skol skol skol
patterns of party pissdom are pretty prevalent
Then there is the festival of Lucia and
midsommer maypole,
more dancing
more skol
They Celebrate Frej and Freja,
the gods in charge of harvest and fertility.
It’s also tradition to put seven different varieties of wild flowers under your pillow at the end of the night so you can drunken dream about your true love.
That’s if you even make it back to your bed
after all the schnapps!
Fettis dagen
Lucia is 13 December every year
this tradition dates from at least 1746.
Lucia got its witchy ties
because it used to be regarded as the
longest night of the year.
Because of the darkness,
it was believed that spirits came out
and animals even started talking!
Then we move to more modern authors
Of cleansing tales… (sic)
Margareta Magnusson TGAOSDC
(best clean dirty book)
she teaches how to tidy up
after all that skol, sex, & sordid drinking.
Google her.
Then there is
Fettisdagen and cake stuffing faces
and semlor
and Helan GÃĨr.
Then more fika FFS
shoes off flags everywhere
clogs off more fika
more cake
more sweets
more drinks
Skol to that!
then easter trees with
decorated birch branches
used as self flagellation whips
& MORE wild witches
Possible BDSM,
wtf?
Then more skol more cake
more crawfish more schnapps
more awesome sing a long songs.
LÃķrdagsgodis Saturday eat sweets lots of fish lollies
Then face stuff cinnamon bun day 4th October
Then face stuff waffle day 25th March
Then face stuff chocolate mud cake day 7th November
then more skol skol skol skol skol
Santa Maria even adopted the term
“fredagsmys” as taco Fridays
who doesn't LOVE a fresh taco on a Fry Day...
eat drink and BE merry
Loosen uppppp!
skol skol skol skol
FIKA FFS
loosen Upppppp!
party people eat more crawfish,
More cheese pie and drink plenty of aquavit (vodka)
while singing MORE drunken sing a long silly songs.
Seeing A skol PATTERN yet...?
ðšðŧð·ðļðđðĨðĨð
Then the royal houses come in,
Historians believe "kubb" aka the "King"
a wooden block knock down game
originated on the island of Gotland,
And you guessed it!
whilst drunken in wild sauna sweat lodges
& ice baths feasting in Viking orgies.
Skol Hagar! Skol VERONICA!
Drink up loosen up!
♣️♣️♣️♣️♣️
Then some icy cold Cross
country ðŋ⛷️➕ðūðĨ
In 1521 Gustav Ericsson
(later known as Gustav Vasa)
invented the
Vasa cross country ski marathon,
Mora to SÃĪlen,
Vasaloppet a distance of 90km.
cold cold cold ❄️☃️ðŋ❄️
so more skol shots were needed
for defrosting
Then At Skansen
Where huge crowds (of one…)
gather for a huge NYE celebration.
Since 1895,
the same poem has been read aloud,
timed perfectly for the strike of 12.
The poem is
"Ring Out, Wild Bells",
by Alfred Tennyson –
“Ring, Klocka, Ring”.
“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.”
By Alfred Tennyson
This poem is in the public domain.
Happy New Dawn
Fresh Horizons
Fresh Flow
Moment 2 Moment
Every Damn Day
Then you guessed it …
Followed by
more skol
More fika cake
More crawfish
More Sheer Excellence!
As James in the video above
The 4 times skol boy
The Faith Full Servant
The Bond Eye Butler
Says,
“Same as last year Mrs Sophie…
I’ll do my very best…”
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As you always do…
But Watch that tigers head mate,
It’ll trip ewe up every time!
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Traditions
Elevate Me A lot
Two infinity & beyond…
“Dinner For One”
Since ‘The Summer of 6️⃣9️⃣’
Thank you RAS
Thank you APM.
Minsec, Poseidon
ASIC, insider trader,
O’Connell Street,
Food on The Table
“Robynot”
Shoes Shine, Equality
Equity & excellence
Business Bachelor?
UTS STC CPPS SPC
EYE SEA? Can? Sir?
A novel approach,
ONE
decade of death?
Family, Friends
Respect FULL
GRACE full
Purpose FULL
WONDER full,
Seriously, silly,
One Full life,
Green Growth
Humble Humans
Back Yards,
Trees Please,
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Ocean Swells,
Farm Yards,
Country Life,
City CBD,
Over Seas,
Singatoka Surreal
Bonalbo beauty
Opera Houses
Towra Point
Flying 11
St George’s Basin
New Zeal Lands
Paddy’s Markets
Mrs Delbah
Mr Marshall
Athol Allen
Ms Flannery
Bev Evans
Stone Henge
Uluáđu
Pigeon House
Ocean World HK
DISNEY LAND
NYC LAOS
LUANG PRABANG
Connells point park
Pepi Como Oatley Bay
Kites Wanda Hills
Port Hacking
La Perouse
Pinch Gut
Fort Denison
Botanic Gardens
12/16 HRL
The Cubby
The Swing
The footy
The chooks
Gwen Stan Molly Allen
Uncles Aunts Cousins
The postie bike
The rocky river
The slug gun
Rafts
Rapids
Mischief
More
Mucking around
In boats…
No TV
Hard work
Home work
Self discipline
Fine fun
Books libraries
Pay attention
Easter Xmas mass
Learn live love
laugh
One Full Life,
Living Still,
So Eat, Drink &
Be Merry
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#DYOR #MYOB
