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May. 8th, 2009 12:25 pmYesterday afternoon I finally got the published shop and the back office up and running smoothly. What a relief.
Today is "Big Prayer Day" in Denmark, which means that all businesses and shops are closed. Traditionally you eat warm wheat buns today and I've bought two for C and I to eat when he comes back from the shop, where he and my dad are working today to get it ready for the grand opening next Saturday.
I find history terribly interesting, particularly as a inspirational source of writing plots and worldbuilding. Yesterday I watched two BBC history episodes on medieval monks. Very enlightning and I will never think of medieval monks in quite the same way again.
Anyway, for those with the same interest as me in history here's a little bit about Big Prayer Day:
Eating warm wheat buns on big prayer day is a tradition that was born out of practicality. Since the bakers weren't allowed to work on big prayer day, they baked mountains of wheat buns on Thursday before big prayer day that people could buy and warm up at home. And it's still like that, even though I doubt many Danes still buy bread every day from the baker.
Big Prayer Day was originally one of many prayer days, but in 1686 King Christian the 5th announced the 4th Friday after Easter to be the Big Prayer Day or "Extraordinary, regular prayer-day" as it was called at that time, that way he could do his prayers before starting his summer journeys.
A funny fact about Big Prayerday (apart from it being extraordinary and regular at the same time), was that it was annouced already the evening before by chiming the largest bell of the church, called the storm bell. The chiming was a signal for all inns etc. to close and that one was no longer allowed any merchant activities. This way, there was hope that people would arrive in church on time the next day (and sober).
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Facts sourced from:
Store Bededag
Today is "Big Prayer Day" in Denmark, which means that all businesses and shops are closed. Traditionally you eat warm wheat buns today and I've bought two for C and I to eat when he comes back from the shop, where he and my dad are working today to get it ready for the grand opening next Saturday.
I find history terribly interesting, particularly as a inspirational source of writing plots and worldbuilding. Yesterday I watched two BBC history episodes on medieval monks. Very enlightning and I will never think of medieval monks in quite the same way again.
Anyway, for those with the same interest as me in history here's a little bit about Big Prayer Day:
Eating warm wheat buns on big prayer day is a tradition that was born out of practicality. Since the bakers weren't allowed to work on big prayer day, they baked mountains of wheat buns on Thursday before big prayer day that people could buy and warm up at home. And it's still like that, even though I doubt many Danes still buy bread every day from the baker.
Big Prayer Day was originally one of many prayer days, but in 1686 King Christian the 5th announced the 4th Friday after Easter to be the Big Prayer Day or "Extraordinary, regular prayer-day" as it was called at that time, that way he could do his prayers before starting his summer journeys.
A funny fact about Big Prayerday (apart from it being extraordinary and regular at the same time), was that it was annouced already the evening before by chiming the largest bell of the church, called the storm bell. The chiming was a signal for all inns etc. to close and that one was no longer allowed any merchant activities. This way, there was hope that people would arrive in church on time the next day (and sober).
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Facts sourced from:
Store Bededag
