[MR] Looking For A Name? - German

[Alex Long]

As Gise said, "Happy Samhain & Happy New Year".
However I feel a need to point out that what was prominent in the Brittish Isles was not necessarily so in Germany, to which culture the original email referenced. Jes' sayin'. <grin>

-- Ceara ní Néill 
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--- On Sat, 11/1/08, David Chessler <chessler at usa.net> wrote:

> From: David Chessler <chessler at usa.net>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Looking For A Name? - German
> To: "Miriel" <miriel.crawford at gmail.com>, "David Chessler" <chessler at usa.net>
> Cc: "Atlantia" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 2:14 AM
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:38:03 AM EDT
> From: Miriel <miriel.crawford at gmail.com>
> To: "David Chessler" <chessler at usa.net>Cc:
> scribe0002 at aol.com, Atlantia
> <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Looking For A Name? - German
> 
> > Once Christianity took over, yes that was the case;
> but there are slight
> > records indicating that this was a New Year's
> celebration for the Druidic
> > faith.
> 
> To be sure, Samhain predates Christianity, though in large
> parts of Europe,
> Christianity predates "period." But Druids? They
> were suppressed by the
> Romans, and were largely gone by the 2nd C--before
> "period."
> 
> We rapier fighters are very sensitive to the problems of a
> discontinuous
> tradition.
> :-)
> 
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> > 
> > Miriel, pagan
> > 
> > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:53 AM, David Chessler
> <chessler at usa.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > ------ Original Message ------
> > > Received: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:56:11 PM EDT
> > > From: scribe0002 at aol.com
> > > To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> > > Subject: [MR] Looking For A Name? - German
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Sleep well and Happy Halloween . . . Happy
> Samhain . . . . Happy New
> Year
> > >
> > > In period, in most of Europe, the day after
> Hallowe'en (All Hallows Eve)
> is
> > > All Saints Day. The following day is All Souls
> day (the day of the dead
> in
> > > some places.
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> > > YIS
> > >
> > > Davitt il Bigollo da Pisa
> > > Erudit de l'Academie de Espee de Atlantia
> > > Storvik (rapier)
> > > Roxbury Mill (other things)
> > >
> > >
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