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Old apple tree, we wassail thee, And hoping thou wilt bear: For the Lord doth know where we shall be Till apples come another year. To bloom well, and to bear well, So merry let us be: Let every man take off his hat, And shout to the old apple tree: Old apple tree, we wassail thee, And hoping thou wilt bear, Hatfuls, capfuls and three bushel ...
A pot of simmering wassail, infused with citrus fruit slices and cinnamon sticks Wassailers in Shirehampton, Bristol. Wassail (/ ˈ w ɒ s əl /, /-eɪ l / WOSS-əl, -ayl) is a beverage made from hot mulled cider, ale, or wine and spices, drunk traditionally as an integral part of wassailing, an ancient English Christmastide and Yuletide drinking ritual and salutation either involved in ...
The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.
The Anglo Saxon wassail was, traditionally, a way to wish for a healthy forest and a good harvest to come - and is often associated with cider orchards as a result.
"Here We Come A-wassailing" (or "Here We Come A-Caroling"), also known as "Here We Come A-Christmasing", "Wassail Song" and by many other names, is a traditional English Christmas carol and New Year song, [1] typically sung whilst wassailing, or singing carols, wishing good health and exchanging gifts door to door. [2]
The Wassail began outside the local Pub, the Stag's Head Inn, with music and dance performed by the Wyvern Jubilee Morris Men. There was then a noisy procession to a local orchard where the Wassailing Carol (see below) was sung, the Wassail Queen placed slices of bread soaked in cider in the oldest tree in the orchard.
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The Apple Wassail or Orchard Wassail is a traditional form of wassailing practiced in the cider orchards of Southern England during the winter, on either Twelfth Night (5 or 6 January) or Old Twelfth Night ("Old Twelvey", 17 January). There are many well recorded instances of the Apple Wassail in the early modern period.