A HISTORY OF PAGAN EUROPE by Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick

Author:Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781136141805
Publisher: Routledge

as St Johns Eve, was a night of revelry, when apprentice boys in particular ran wild. In some Scandinavian settlements the solstice replaced the summer offering-tide of 9–15 June. The Isle of Man in Britain retains its Viking-founded parliament, held at an artificial hill called Tynwald (assembly plain) on 25 June every year. Christianisation has ensured that each delegate wears a sprig of St Johns Wort on the day. In modern Scandinavia, midsummer bonfires are lit to this day, and the custom of rolling flaming wheels down hills at midsummer still persists in northern Europe.

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