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Happy St Knut's Day

  • 13-01-2015 9:26am
    #1
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,641 ✭✭✭


    It's St Knut's day today.

    If you know any Knut's, tell them to have a happy Knut's day.


Comments

  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I know a few Knuts.


  • #3
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    kneemos wrote: »
    I know a few Knuts.

    I got an email from a guy called Knut last week. When I went to reply I wasn't if it was a first or
    last name so googled it. Found it that it means 'knot' in Swedish. Apparently sometimes the last
    child born is called Knut as in tying a knot in it and having no more I suppose. Interesting fact of the day.


  • #4
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Kuntz


  • #5
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    St. Knut's Day is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Finland on 13 January.
    But thanks for letting Irish people know I suppose.


  • #6
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,806 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Interesting:

    '.....there has been a tradition a bit analogous to modern Santa Claus, where young men dressed as a goat would visit houses. Usually the dress was an inverted fur jacket, a leather or birchbark mask, and horns. Unlike Santa Claus, Nuuttipukki was a scary character. The men dressed as Nuuttipukki wandered from house to house, came in, and typically demanded food from the household and especially leftover alcoholic beverages. In Finland the Nuuttipukki tradition is still living at areas of Satakunta, Finland Proper and Ostrobothnia. However, nowadays the character is usually played by children and now involves a happy encounter.'


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