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Marathon: Resurrection Forum
Re: 13th of December, Lucia
Posted By: Wolfchild
Date: 2002.12.13.09.54
In Response To: 13th of December, Lucia (SilentMan)
: Today it is the 13th of December (in my timezone anyway
: Hawk  ) meaning another traditional Swedish custom
: is here. Today we celebrate Lucia! For you who haven't
: heard about it here's a short recap of the myth: young
: inoccent christian girl from Sicily is forced to marry
: heretic bad boy. Refuses to do so, got tortured, died
: and got voted martyr.
: This might have gone right by the world as large (duh)
: but for some reason Sweden picked up on this and now
: we celebrate Lucia by getting up waaay before the sun,
: gathering together, listening to the young people,
: singing Lucia carrols (they are dressed in white
: robes, one of the girls is appointed Lucia and gets to
: wear candles in her hair, lucky her) and eat ginger
: bread and "lussebullar" (anyone wanna try to
: translate this one please do so) and drinking glögg.
: Now, glögg is a bit like glüewhine only sweeter, and
: in most cases a LOT stronger. If you have no idea of
: what any of those above are, then think spiced red
: wine served hot. 0700 in the morning...
: So where ever you are in the world, grab a cookie, hot up
: some drinkabel stuff and start singing "Stilla
: natt, heliga natt, allt är frid....."
So what you've got is a virgin wearing nothing but a white robe and getting drunk. This is a holiday that *I* could observe. 
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