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Thread #97286   Message #1912205
Posted By: Herga Kitty
17-Dec-06 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: 'Christmas' Songs that don't mention Christmas
Subject: RE: Songs that don't mention Christmas
The Boar's Head carol.

It's the earliest English carol to have appeared in print. There is nothing to link it with Christmas in the words, but it apparently results from an encounter between an Oxford scholar and a boar on Christmas morning in the fifteenth century.

Kitty

PS The scholar successfully defended himself against the boar's attack by taking it by the scruff of the neck and stuffing a volume of Aristotle down its throat.