It's an old song, the words got switched to make the rhyme work -- so, now you know:
"Troll the ancient Yule-tide Carol..."
Posted on 12/20/2017 12:40:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The December solstice happens at the same instant for everyone, everywhere on Earth – and this year the solstice occurs tomorrow, on Thursday December 21st at 16:28 GMT.
The winter solstice happens every year when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted farthest away from the Sun, delivering the fewest hours of sunlight of the year.
The Sun is directly overhead of the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere during the December solstice and is closer to the horizon than at any other time in the year, meaning shorter days and longer nights.
The shortest day of the year lasts for 7 hours 49 minutes and 41 seconds in Britain, which is 8 hours, 49 minutes shorter than the June Solstice. As such, Wednesday December 20th is the longest night of the year with the sun not rising until 08:04 GMT on Thursday morning...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“When it gets cold, they can switch to down underwear.”
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Well the days, very slowly, start getting longer after the Winter solstice, but here in the Mid-Atlantic, the worst of the winter is yet to come. December generally isn’t too bad, but January and February and even March can be brutal, very cold and with the heaviest snows. But if we get a blizzard in March, at least there’s a good chance that it won’t be dark when I drive home from work through it. :)
‘^)
"Troll the ancient Yule-tide Carol..."
Boooo. They want me to subscribe in order to read the whole article.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la, la
The etymological curiosity in the word troll, sometimes sung as toll or trawl, is especially interesting, as it reflects both Anglo-Saxon roots and the more familiar mage in later Norse influences. In the sense of the carol, it reflects Old English origins, prior to the arrival of the Vikings, to go about or to stroll. The connection with fishing, a drag-net, also extends from this source. The sense of a monstrous creature has old Germanic roots and though the English had their own words for native orcs and demons, they borrowed the word of the newcomer. Perhaps the two meanings again converge in the ultimate sense of a horrid individual who is trawling for attention with nasty comments. English did borrow a lot of basic vocabulary from the Scandinavian languages, and interestingly what’s been retained of -- or edged out by -- Norse terminology are words with an overwhelmingly negative connotations, which probably bespeaks their uneasy cohabitation: anger, awkward, blunder, bug, crook, cur, death, dirt, dregs, gawk, heathen, Hell, irk, mire, muck, muggy, odd, outlaw, rotten, skull, slaughter, thwart, ugly, weak and wrong -- to name a few. Of course, there are numerous exceptions, too -- like that word Yule, for the midwinter months and associated festivities, which was later appropriated by the Christians.
Yeah, I know, that's why we only have an excerpt here. Tell them to have a Merry Christmas, that'll destroy their blood pressure.
Oh, but wait -- turns out that the whole version is in the Google cache, and the graphics are all quite nice. Haven't had time to read the rest, just found out. Sure hope no one does anything rash, like post the link. Dammit, I've been hacked.
Yeah, THAT really stinks...
New York solstice street map (not even “Occupy Solstice”, someone ****ed up)
The back to school stuff seems to go out at the stores right after the July 4th stuff gets clearanced, and not long before the end-of-summer Labor Day cookout specials. I guess the way to fool ourselves is to observe the summer and winter solstices as “midsummer” and “midwinter”, even though the worse of winter is yet to hit us, and the heat of summer hasn’t yet started. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date, blah blah blah. I love Shakespeare, other than all the cliches. /rimshot
That’s kinky. ;^D
The Erf’s temperatures seem to lag the solar input by about a month.
Radiant heat in the middle of the (Winter) day is nice though.
:)
It ain't a real Christmas party until the pagans break out the goat leggings.
HERETICS!!! Oh, sorry.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3615435/posts?page=28#28
Hey, a tidbit — pipe organs, so familiar at least to our cultural memory, as being indelibly associated with large churches, were not easily adopted, because the sound was “too Jewish”. [”The Jewish Connection” by M. Hirsh Goldberg]
more: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11761-organ
and it’s the most wonderful time of the year again:
Early Christians Hid The Origins Of The Bethlehem Star
New Scientist | 12-21-2001 | Marcus Chown
Posted on 12/21/2001 5:11:00 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/595004/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/michaelmolnar/index
That’s called dressing down.
The article still doesn’t say why......or what they are celebrating for. Not that I care.
Inti Raymi - the Inca festival of the sun.
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