SC - Re: WASSAIL--Is There Documentation?

[LHG,JRG]

Yet another Wassail post to the Rialto:

djheydt at uclink.berkeley.edu (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>In article <3460f2c0.1268932 at news.goodnet.com>, dell at goodnet.com wrote:
>
>> The oldest reference I have to the custom is in "Daily Living in the
>> Twelfth Century" by Urban Tigner Holmes, jr.  He says that it was a
>> silly custom of the English.  One drinker would pick up a vessel of
>> wine, "salute his companion with a kiss, and cry "Wassail!"  The other
>> bestowed a kiss in turn and cried "Drink-hail!"  They both drank. . .
>> .  The people on the Continent observed this practice with awe and
>> amusement, and were disposed to consider the English to be drunkards
>> because of it."....
>
>Hmmmm.  Would this have been before, or after, the envious
>Frenchman who wrote, "The English never drink water except as
>penance"?
>
>Dorothy J. Heydt
>Albany, California
>djheydt at uclink
>(My account might go away at any moment; if I disappear, I haven't died.)



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