Re: Religious Festivities
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 26, 1998, 16:28 |
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Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> > English. The term is synonymous with Christmas, as in the carol "sin=
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> > we all the Yuletide carol, fa la la ..."
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> Even older than that is Old Norse and Icelandic /j=F3l/.
Well, in the English word's modern form, yes. But the term itself goes
back to the V=F6lkerwanderung, before terms like "English", "German",
and certainly "Icelandic" made a whole lot of sense.
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Tom Wier <twier@...>
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cynes / w=EAold w=EEde-ferh=F0."
_Beowulf_, ll. 700-702
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