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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Marcus Buck</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
<span class="gi">LL-L "Tradition" 2010.12.31 (03) [EN-NL]</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</span></a>> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">I'm prepared for big expenses at my door tomorrow, cf:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZPe5S7wwH4" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZPe5S7wwH4</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Here is one of the versions:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Nieuwjaarke zoete<br>
Mijn varken heeft vier voeten<br>
Vier voeten en ene staart<br>
Is dat dan geen wafel waard<br>
Is die wafel nog niet gebakken<br>
Geef me dan een schotel pap<br>
Is die schotel pap nog niet gereed<br>
Geef me dan een beste kleed<br>
Is dat beste kleed nog niet genaaid<br>
Geef me dan een haantje dat kraait<br>
Is dat haantje dat kraait nog niet geboren<br>
Geef me dan een pot vol kolen<br>
Is die potvol kolen nog niet gebrand<br>
Geef me dan een dikke, dikke, vette vleeskant.<br>
(De tekst werd uiteraard in het dialect gezongen.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Generally one sings only a few lines and one collects some coins.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">When I was a kid in the early fifties, it was not unusual that
people (not only kids) came with a white debarked stick with a sharp point and
collected slices of bacon on it.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Interesting. I guess this
tradition is related to the tradition of <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faslam" target="_blank">Faslam</a>.
"Faslam" is a highly compacted Low German word form originating from
"Fastelavend". It originally meant the day of Shrove Tuesday, but in
its rural Northern German context there was much contamination with other
festivities and the date is different in each village. It ranges between January
1 and the actual Shrove Tuesday. My personal impression is that
"Faslam" has nothing to do with Carnival or Lent. I am not aware of
any aspects of Faslam that make any connections to christianity. Just the name
was borrowed from an event of the liturgical year.<br>
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I'll try to give a short description of the basics of Faslam. Faslam is
different in every single village, but the main course is this: the
participants (usually the young people of the village, in earlier times the
main participants were the "Knechten" [farm hands]) walk from house
to house, singing songs and making noise, often in costume, and collecting
food. They collect bacon and sausages on birches or on pitchforks, eggs in a
basket, and Korn (sort of hard liquor) in their stomachs. After that they visit
the local inn, have a dance, consume the collected food and even more Korn and
beer.<br>
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In modern times this tradition is restricted to northeastern Lower
Saxony and northern Saxony-Anhalt. But in earlier times it was
also known in many other regions of northern Germany. Would be interesting to
hear whether Faslam or something similar to Faslam was known in the Dutch
regions too.<br>
<br>
Marcus Buck</p>
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