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	Medieval English Martinmesse: The Archaeology of a Forgotten Festival Folklore - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Martinmas is seen as both the last harvest festival and a curtain raiser for the extended winter revelling season, in effect a "Carnival" in late autumn.
		This was Martlemas or Martinmas (Middle English, Martinmesse), the principal feast of that early Western saint, Martin of Tours, celebrated throughout Europe on 11 November.
		Martinmas also designated a micro-season of the agricultural year, roughly the middle two weeks of November, chiefly characterised by the slaughter of beasts for winter provision and the testing of the new wine (see Figure 1).
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	The Secular Half of the Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One significant holiday during the secular period was Martinmas (Nov. 11).
		Martinmas often fell around the time that English farmers would need to slaughter their livestock due to feed limitations (Laroque 144*).
		The popular imagery of Martinmas, then, was a respite for the farmer—a time of abundance in the middle of hardship.
	www.duke.edu /web/rpc/pasttimes/worldturnedupsidedown/secular.html (251 words)

	St. Martin's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originating in France, the tradition of celebrating Martinmas spread to Germany in the 16th century and later to Scandinavia and the Baltics.
		Martinmas actually has two meanings: in the agricultural calendar it marks the beginning of the natural winter, but in the economic calendar it is seen as the end of autumn.
		Among Estonians, Martinmas also marks the end of the period of all souls, as well as the autumn period in the Estonian popular calendar when the souls of the ancestors were worshiped that lasted from November 1 to Martinmas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martinmas (1339 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Martinmas and St Martin of Tours \| Hollantide Martin's Day goose geese ...
		Martinmas, or the feast day of St Martin, was in Europe the time of year for tasting the new season’s wine and for the killing of meat for Winter eating.
		Animals were slaughtered Martinmas feasts as well as for salting as food for the Winter.
		If it is at Martinmas fair, dry, and cold, the cold in Winter will not last long.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /st_martins_day.html (3405 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Thanksgiving and Martinmas (Activity)
		Father Weiser explains the origins of Thanksgiving rites, including the celebration of Martinmas on St. Martin of Tours feast day of November 11, Jewish celebrations and the American National Holiday.
		The most common, and almost universal, harvest and thanksgiving celebration in medieval times was held on the Feast of Saint Martin of Tours (Martinmas) on November 11.
		Martinmas was the festival commemorating filled barns and stocked larders, the actual Thanksgiving Day of the Middle Ages.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/activities/view.cfm?id=1191 (1767 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Martinmas Traditions (Activity)
		His feast is also known as "Martinmas." Recipes included is haggis and almond horseshoe cakes.
		Now that we have eaten fish for St. Peter and mutton for St. Bartholomew and pig for St. Michael, it might be well to finish with the other remaining fall harvest feasts.
		I have a suspicion that the people of Viljandi were just showing off their fine harvests by putting samples of everything in the pudding.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/activities/view.cfm?id=1193 (950 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Martinmas.
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Martinmas.
		His Martinmas will come, as it does to every hog—i.e.
		Martinmas, therefore, was the slaying time, and the proverb intimates that our slaying-time or day of death will come as surely as that of a hog at St. Martin’s-tide.
	www.bartleby.com /81/11103.html (110 words)

	Community \| Private, Independent Waldorf Education in St. Louis, MO \| Shining Rivers School \| Preschool, Kindergarten ...
		On seeing he, the young Martin took his own cape from his shoulder, tore the garment in half and covered the poor man to warm him.The experience confirmed in him his devotion to all mankind regardless of their station in life.
		The evening of Martinmas is remembered with a festival of lanterns.
		As we approach the darkest time of year, the eternal nature of the light within each child's heart is reflected in the outward experience of walking to the center of an evergreen spiral to light a candle from a central flame.
	www.shiningrivers.org /community.htm (593 words)

	School celebrates Martinmas - City
		Corporate logos, cellular phones, iPods and shrieking children were noticeably absent from the school's annual Martinmas festival Saturday, which was open to the general public for the first time this year.
		Martinmas is a holiday honoring St. Martin, a fourth century army officer who - according to legend - went out into the night searching for people in need of help.
		Benjamin Trueblood, a second-grade teacher at Emerson and graduate of another Waldorf school, told the children gathered at the festival a story of St. Martin taking the form of a winged horse and looking for honest men.
	www.dailytarheel.com /home/news/2006/11/13/City/School.Celebrates.Martinmas-2454850.shtml (465 words)

	Never Yet Melted » Armistice Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The feast day of St. Martin, the Martinmas, had been for centuries a major landmark in the European calendar, a date on which leases expired, rents came due; and represented, in Northern Europe, a seasonal turning point after which cold weather and snow might be normally expected.
		The festival of St. Martin, happening at that season when the new wines of the year are drawn from the lees and tasted, when cattle are killed for winter food, and fat geese are in their prime, is held as a feast-day over most parts of Christendom.
		In Scotland and the north of England, a fat ox is called a mart, clearly from Martinmas, the usual time when beeves are killed for winter use.
	neveryetmelted.com /?cat=1145 (1046 words)

	Martinmas-Alice-Medieval Feasts & Fasts
		Foods made from garbage will not last and must be eaten up as soon as it can be.
		Martinmas is almost as good as Carnival, but not so much.
		Most livestock would be slaughtered in November because there would not be enough food to feed them over the winter.
	mw.mcmaster.ca /scriptorium/alice_site/martinmas_alice_end.html (268 words)

	English Festival: Harvest Festivals from Around the World at HarvestFestivals.Net.
		English Catholics celebrate the Feast of Saint Martin of Tours or as it is also known Martinmas, held on November 11.
		This feast was held to honor the Hungarian saint who, as legend goes, hid in a barn when he heard he had been appointed a bishop and believed he did not earn such an honor.
		A honking goose as legend goes was to reveal his hiding place, so roast goose became a traditional dish for Martinmas feast, along with wine made from the grape harvest.
	www.harvestfestivals.net /englishfestivals.htm (756 words)

	haligweorc: A Blessed Martinmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Haligweorc Old English: Sanctuary (formed from the words "holy" and "work" thus what goes on in a sanctuary.) This is my sanctuary for writing on religion, academics, and the other things that ground my life.
		Despite the unseasonably warm weather we're having here, Martinmas served for the Gallican church the same function that St Andrew's day does in the Roman and later traditions: the harbinger of Advent, the Winter Lent.
		Even the RCL in it's warm fuzzy modernity seems to recognize this and the mass readings will begin taking an eschatological turn until Advent is upon us again.
	haligweorc.blogspot.com /2006/11/blessed-martinmas.html (303 words)

	Ireland's OWN Poetry and Prose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		10 November is the Scottish pagan festival of Nicnevin (commonly known as Martinmas Eve as the Christians took this holiday and made "St. Martinmas Eve").
		This holiday honours the aspect of the Goddess Diana, who ride with her entourage in the night hours of 9-10 November.
		It is also known by some as Martinmas, St. Martinmas or Old November Day.
	irelandsown.net /november.html (673 words)

	News and events
		In March, we were at the Prowein Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany and then in April we participated in Vinitaly in Verona, the largest wine exhibition in Italy.
		Koper, November 2004 - Martinmas on 11 November is the biggest Slovenian wine festivity.
		The traditional Martinmas celebration under the tent was opened by the Slovenian Wine Queen Vesna Bajuk.
	www.vinakoper.si /posebnosti_dogodki_e.html (256 words)

	The Waldorf School of Atlanta
		November 11 marks Martinmas, in honor of a Roman soldier elevated to sainthood for his selfless kindness.
		He is known for his gentleness, his unassuming nature, and his ability to bring warmth and light to those who were previously in darkness.
		On the evening of Martinmas, Martin’s deeds of goodness and acts of kindness are remembered with singing and a Festival of Lanterns.
	www.waldorfatlanta.org /festivals.htm (1389 words)

	Clara Kramer-Freudenthal vertellt: Neddersassische (nedderdüütsche, plattdüütsche) Vertelln, Riemels un Rezepten -- ...
		I readily admit it: the Martin's goose is foremost in our minds when we think of Martinmas.
		Also, she used to tell us about St. Martin who had a heart for poor and begging folks, and why the goose in the oven had gotten the name "St.
		In many parts the tradition is still alive whereby on the night before Martinmas children process through the streets with laterns, in front of them a rider on a white horse, representing St. Martin.
	www.sassisch.net /rhahn/kramer/martinsdag.htm (1734 words)

	Scottish Customs and Holidays - November Festivals
		The feast of St. Martin was held on November the eleventh, one of the Scottish quarter days.
		It is usually referred to as Martinmas but pronounced Martimas.
		Oxen were killed and butchered and salted to preserve the meat which was the winter as food.
	www.scottishradiance.com /custom/custom9711.htm (468 words)

	Chapter Martinmas <i>to</i> Masoola boat of M by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		Chapter Martinmas to Masoola boat of M by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		a period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer.
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	November 2006 Holidays - School of the Seasons
		In Germany, Martinmas fires were lit, in areas along the Rhine and the Moselle.
		Traditionally this is the day for slaughtering the animals that will not be carried through the winter, typically geese or pigs, culminating in a feast of fresh meat.
		November 11 was once a sort of new year, when schools and parliament opened, municipal elections were held, leases signed and farm contracts renewed.
	www.schooloftheseasons.com /novdays1.html (4069 words)

	Feast of St.Martin (Martinmas)
		newly-produced wine is ready for drinking, and the end of winter preparations, including the butchering of animals (an old English saying is "His Martinmas will come as it does to every hog," meaning "he will get his comeuppance" or "everyone must die").
		In many countries, including Germany, Martinmas celebrations begin at the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of this eleventh day of the eleventh month.
		Bonfires are built, and children carry lanterns in the streets after dark, singing songs for which they are rewarded with candy.
	www.fisheaters.com /customstimeafterpentecost15.html (1081 words)

	Irish Celebrations & Feast Days - Martinmas - World Cultures European
		It’s what they did in old Ireland on November 10th, which is Martinmas - the eve of the feast of St. Martin.
		Similar to Indian Summer in the United States, this brief interlude before winter sets in is called Martinmas Summer.
		In the old days, as in many countries that were predominantly rural, this time of year was spent in preparation for the hard months ahead.
	www.irishcultureandcustoms.com /ACalend/Martinmas.html (622 words)

	Rosemary Lane: Martinmas Heron
		Around about St. Martin's Day, 11th November, we often enjoy a spell of warm weather when the air is light and the sunshine is delicately beautiful.
		Such Martinmas weather provides the energetic among us with a last chance to do some digging in the kitchen garden in preparation for spring planting before General Winter advances from the north.
		In the old days, Martinmas was held to mark the onset of winter.
	rosemarylane.blogspot.com /2005/11/martinmas-heron.html (600 words)

	Tingle Alley » The day after Martinmas: George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows
		Tingle Alley » The day after Martinmas: George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows
		A Feast for Crows">The day after Martinmas: George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows
		A Feast for Crows has to be the most nippletastic book I’ve read since, oh, Candy.
	www.tinglealley.com /?p=951 (680 words)

	Samhain, The Pagan New Year - Pagan
		Some old Celtic traditions don’t celebrate the new year until Yule, leaving the period from Samhain to the winter solstice as a magickal time outside of time.
		Blended over the years, there are many other names for this holiday and other incorporated into it including Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve, Shadowfest, Martinmas, Old Hallowmas and the Day of the Dead.
		Many of these holidays honor the souls of the dead, with the ancient belief being that the veil between the human and spirit worlds are the thinnest at this time of year.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art13463.asp (556 words)

	Halloween
		Halloween is a Wiccan/Pagan holiday that is known by various names.
		Among these are Shadowfest, Martinmas, Old Hallowmas, and Samhain (pronounced Saw-Un).
		Samhain is the Witch's New Year and the last of the three harvest Sabbats.
	members.tripod.com /~Ameth/halloween.html (594 words)

	Term and Quarter Days (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 22)
		An Act to regulate, in relation to Scotland, the dates of Whitsunday, Martinmas, Candlemas and Lammas; and for connected purposes.
		Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
		(a) Whitsunday and Martinmas mean 28th May and 28th November respectively;
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/acts1990/Ukpga_19900022_en_1.htm (798 words)

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		Martinmas and the saint of conscientious objection to military service
		Cross, cross thyself: thou plaguest and vexest me without necessity; for, owing to my exertions, thou wilt soon reach Rome, the object of thy wishes.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/nov11.html (3090 words)

	A Candlelight Dinner Celebrating Martinmas!: Virginia Is For Lovers
		A Candlelight Dinner Celebrating Martinmas!: Virginia Is For Lovers
		Enjoy a memorable evening at Explore Park’s Historic Brugh Tavern for this autumn’s very special candlelight dinner celebrating Martinmas.
		Entertainment will feature Gingerthistle, a traditional Appalachian and Celtic musical duo from Tyron, North Carolina.
	www.virginia.org /site/description.asp?attrID=35256 (155 words)

	Andrew Cusack: The First Sunday of Martinmas Term
		Andrew Cusack: The First Sunday of Martinmas Term
		Today is the first Sunday and term and so after breakfasting in hall (a modest meal of bacon, hash-brown, and apple juice) I donned the old three-piece and gown and hopped over to Chapel for the first service of term.
		A series of post covering the history, design, and use of ceremonial maces in the United States.
	www.andrewcusack.com /blog/2005/09/the_first_sunda.php (737 words)

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