Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.

Subject: RE: Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 08 Dec 24 - 05:08 PM

Congratulations, Dave. Now Herself is singing the original to get the above out of *her* head.

Subject: RE: Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Dec 24 - 04:10 AM

You're welcome :-D

Subject: RE: Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Dec 24 - 07:32 AM

If she likes faux Latin she many well ike The Kipper Family's Away Day

Enjoy :-)

Subject: RE: Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.
From: Rain Dog
Date: 11 Dec 24 - 07:10 AM

Broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4 Extra,the latest episode of

A Cause for Caroling - 3.. From Coventry to Agincourt

The Boar's Head carol is discussed towards the end of the programme.

Subject: RE: Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 16 Dec 24 - 06:23 AM

THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL
Wikipedia: Boar's Head Carol     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar%27s_Head_Carol
The Boar's Head Carol - Many recordings on YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Boar%27s+Head+Carol

Subject: RE: Origins: Boar's Head Carol Info.
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 Dec 24 - 04:42 AM

FROM WIKI
England
The Queen's College, Oxford: annual Boar’s Head Gaudy with Boar’s Head dinner.[6] William Henry Husk, librarian to the Sacred Harmonic Society, wrote about the Oxford tradition in his Songs of the Nativity Being Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (1868):

    Where an amusing tradition formerly current in Oxford concerning the boar's head custom, which represented that usage as a commemoration of an act of valour performed by a student of the college, who, while walking in the neighbouring forest of Shotover and reading Aristotle, was suddenly attacked by a wild boar. The furious beast came open-mouthed upon the youth, who, however, very courageously, and with a happy presence of mind, thrust the volume he was reading down the boar's throat, crying, "Græcum est,"[7] and fairly choked the savage with the sage.[1]