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Thread #142260 Message #3279031
Posted By: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
23-Dec-11 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Le Jour de Saint Nicholas (Fr. Canadian)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Le Jour de Saint Nicholas (Fr. Canadian)
This is an interesting variation on the legend of the Dancers of Kolbigk [spelling?]- where the dancers disturbed a priest saying mass, who cursed them to keep on dancing - some died, but some made it to a hermitage where they were shriven and forgiven. There's a big book on this somewhere. Tthe original gives a quote from their song:
Equitabat Bovo per silvam frondosam,
Et ducit [?] sibi Merswinden formosam.
Cur stamus? Cur non imus?
I think that's how it goes.