If no other plans infringe on it, there will be a Pagan New Year feast
at my house on the first of April.  Bring only a dagger and a spoon,
and leave your good table manners at home!

O yeah, my address (for those of you who don't know) is:
2983 Briarcliff
Ann Arbor, Mi 48105

mail me to RSVP.  E-mail that is...

53 responses total.

details, oh esteemed viking thane?  
1. time
2.purpose (what exactly is being celebrated or caused?)
3. content (elements of ritual if any)
4. source of your ideas (so other people can get familiar with it)

Hope it happens!  

1. I'm working on it, this may turn out to be postponed and thereby just
a Pagan Feast, instead of New Year feast.
2. Purpose, well friday is associated with Frejya so...
3. Whatever people want to do...
4. Norse Mythlogoy, of course.
(don't be silly)

I'm not being silly! I wanted to know if you were using a specific reference,
so I could look at language with which I might want to be familiar, the basic
form of the ritual, etc.  (That's for #4)
3. You need more structure than that- a general outline into which people
can plug suitable ideas, some notion of "props" and materials you can provide
versus what people should bring, forms that would fit together and those you
might want to avoid (I get a bit irked when people smudge the circle in a
Celtic ritual).
2. Cool- so, love, fertility, the hearth, all that pleasant stuff.  What, if
anything, do Norse people think changes at the new year- is it just the 
planting time or does it also have to do with renewing the hearth or with
returning spirits or skrying for the next year or renewing pacts with the
land spirits or tribal gods, or what?

1. OK- let us know.

1. I will, once I know it is happening.
2. I don't know, I have yet to delve that far into the history behind the
mythology.
3.  I'll think of something (I hope)
4. I get the point.

ok, keep in touch.

I think this may turn into a Pagan Day After New Year Feast.  That way,
I'll have more time to prepare.  O, about leaving your table manners
at home, keep the one about not throwing things on the floor in hand.
Other than that, there are no rules, so be as rude as you want!

there are too many things going on Saturday.
"different table manners
 abort

ok, how do I trash a response when it comes out wrong?

as I was saying.
"different table manners" does not equal "no table manners".  When forks were
unknown and individual plates uncommon, there were rules about the right way
to eat with one's fingers, how to get stuff from the common bowl without 
starting a fight, and how to eat with a knife without killing anyone.  I gather
that most celebrations might end with the ladies withdrawing (mostly) and
the guys getting drunk together, but that's a detail.  Not to mention rather
hard on nothing but thin beer.

Okay.  Then leave your MODERN table manners at home.

]that's more like.

good.

Location of Feast may be moved to the _Lone Star_ Steak House in the Collonade
shopping centre.  Throw your peanut shells on the floor, and do the Texas
Two-Step to Alan Jackson's "Chattahocye" (sp?)

what a silly image: a bunch of viking raiders, thanes and their house carls in
ten-gallon hats and cowboy boots...

That's ten gallon hats with horns in them!  Besides, it's the only 
restaraunt I know where your table manners are supposed to be bad.

just the place to take my folks whenever they come to visit :}

I'm not even going to ask...

heh

It's a long and foolish story- my favorite kind.

As far as I know, my feast is still on.  Kami, do you have any idea
what's up with this "Lirpa Sloof (slirpa)" business?  Every conf.  I 
go to, it's the same thing.  Everbody is one person!  Who did this?
Find him/her and execute him/her!

Never Mind.  This is the worst April Fools day joke anyone could have come
up with.  Even MY Sick and Depraved mind isn't THIS sick.

Slirpa!

O, my Pagan Feast has again been postponed.  This time until the 9th.
Sorry for the inconvienince.

That is, after I wear myself out taking the ACT.

As long as it's New Year, and the Pagan calendar makes me three months
older than I actually am, I'm going to go out and get drunk on this 
wonderous year of 400,500,001,994!

this is kind of funny- I wonder how many people I can recognize just by style?
Che(hic!)ers!

by the way- you can always circumvent the stupid header by signing the end
of each reply.

Yeah, I know.  But I decided to use the old rc thingy.

Um actually it's 4,500,001,994 or maybe 4,500,001,995,  or evev 4,500,001,993?
I'm going with the first one.
On this response that is, forget what I said it was in Re#24.

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<vidar smiles>

Hey, I think I can read that..
um, happy..ew? oh, new.. year..um.
oh, Happy New Year!

Exactly.

nifty.

I'm still confused by all those extra letters...
Thank you.

Extra?  They're perfectly important.  J and Y are reversed in Norse.  So
it actually is pronounced Happj New Jear.  I should have used J.  All other
letters are as is in english.

Then again, I am writing using english so it says "Happy New Year"

Cerebus is VERY sorry to have missed this!

Missed What?  It is not happening until the 9th!

Cerebus thought it said the first... cerebus must have
skipped over the rescheduling or been under the influence
of some nasty visual virus...

Is alright if Cerebus come?

If so... should Cerebus reread this whole item to figure out
what to bring, do, wear, etc?

Methinks cerebus skipped a response.

Yes, 'tis alright for any, save cicero, to come.
No, just bring yourself, and good cheer.
Skal!

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