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prettygoodwordHocktide - n., a (mostly formerly) festival held in England on the second Tuesday after Easter.
Once very popular, but it never really recovered from being banned by Henry VIII, and now only celebrated in Hungerford, Berks. The ostensible reason for the traditional festivities was to remember the massacre of some Danes by Ethelred the Unready in 1002, or possibly the death of Harthacanute in 1042, even though both those event happened in very different seasons. Any excuse for a party, eh? As for the name, hock- is a prefix for things of the second week after Easter, of origin unknown.
---L.
Once very popular, but it never really recovered from being banned by Henry VIII, and now only celebrated in Hungerford, Berks. The ostensible reason for the traditional festivities was to remember the massacre of some Danes by Ethelred the Unready in 1002, or possibly the death of Harthacanute in 1042, even though both those event happened in very different seasons. Any excuse for a party, eh? As for the name, hock- is a prefix for things of the second week after Easter, of origin unknown.
---L.
