LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.22 (04) [E]

[Lowlands-L List]

=======================================================================

 L O W L A N D S - L * ISSN 189-5582 * LCSN 96-4226

 http://www.lowlands-l.net * lowlands.list at gmail.com

 Rules & Guidelines: http://www.lowlands-l.net/rules.php

 Posting: lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org - lowlands.list at gmail.com

 Commands ("signoff lowlands-l" etc.): listserv at listserv.net

 Server Manual: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8c/userindex.html

 Archives: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html

 Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8) [Please switch your view mode to it.]

 Administration: lowlands.list at gmail.com or sassisch at yahoo.com


 You have received this because you have been subscribed upon request.
 To unsubscribe, please send the command "signoff lowlands-l" as message
 text from the same account to listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org or
 sign off at http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html.


 A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
 L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
 S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West) Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeeuws)

=======================================================================

===========================================
L O W L A N D S - L - 22 December 2008 - Volume 04
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please set the encoding mode to Unicode (UTF-8).
If viewing this in a web browser, please click on
the html toggle at the bottom of the archived page
and switch your browser's character encoding to Unicode.
===========================================


From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.21 (04) [E]

> From: Heiko Evermann <heiko.evermann at gmx.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Holidays" 2008.12.21 (01) [E]
>
[...]


> We do have an "Adventskranz" (whats that in
> English?) on our kitchen table.
> The story goes that it was invented here in Hamburg by
> Johann Hinrich
> Wichern in a children's home as a countdown to
> Christmas.

Heiko,

Once upon a time I tried to find out more about the history of the
Adventskranz, and I think we cannot say that Wichern [ab. 150 years ago]
invented the Adventskranz.
But as Wichern was very active as a pedagogue he may have made it very
popular.

However, he may have been the inventor of the practice to light a candle on
the Adventskrans for each new day.

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

----------

From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.21 (01) [E]

From: Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong <Dutchmatters at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L "Holidays" 2008.12.21 (01) [E]

.....Solstices were easily observed even by people without modern
technology....



Well, not that easily. The sunrise and sunset positions vary very little day
to day around the Solstices (that's what it means: "Sun stands still").
Without magnification and instrumented scales, you'd be doing well to pin it
down to within a few days. Equinoxes on the other hand, the sun seems to
race around the horizon, so they are fairly easy to define once you've
worked out which way east is, which isn't hard.  That is why so many
traditional New Years begin near them. But not *on* them; the sun doesn't in
fact rise in the east on the equinoxes, unless you consider halfway up to be
"sunrise" - and then only if we didn't have an atmosphere!



Paul Finlow-Bates.

•

==============================END===================================

 * Please submit postings to lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org.

 * Postings will be displayed unedited in digest form.

 * Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.

 * Commands for automated functions (including "signoff lowlands-l")

   are to be sent to listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org or at

   http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html.

*********************************************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lowlands-l/attachments/20081222/656324b7/attachment.htm>