#childermas — Public Fediverse posts
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@jdmccafferty I had never heard this song before seeing Dr Lucy Worsley's programme about Tudor Christmases, and I listen to it each year now.
It absolutely breaks me - it's as beautiful as it is utterly heartbreaking:
"Lully, Lulla, Lullay"
#MassacreOfTheInnocents
#Childermas
#LullyLullaLullay
#Christmas
#LucyWorsley -
My theory: the day was so holy and somber, the #GawainPoet took it for granted that no one would be feasting, hunting, or playing games then, so he simply left it out of the poem and fast-forwarded to the start of Gawain and Bertilak’s exchange game. But who knows [shrug emoji].