@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"

https://youtu.be/99GkxyOdkZU

#MassacreOfTheInnocents
#Childermas
#LullyLullaLullay
#Christmas
#LucyWorsley

28 Dec: feast #otd of the Massacre of the Innocents or #Childermas (BM)

Today is the #4thDayofChristmas otherwise known as #InnocentsDay or #Childermas, so here is an #anonymous #17thCentury #ballad #carol for the day from Good and true, fresh and new #Christmas #carols, 1642.

To be sung to the tune of the Spanish Pavan

It's surprisingly cheerful...

#otd #onthisday #seventeenthcentury #ballads #earlymodern #histodon #histodons #songlyrics #songbook
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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].

#Childermas #FeastOfTheHolyInnocents #Gawain

It’s December 28th, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, or #Childermas which commemorates King Herod’s murder of children in his attempt to find the Christ child.

For scholars of the #GawainPoet this is the infamous “missing day” from the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” … Lord Bertilak feasts for three days starting at Christmas, then hunts for three days, then suddenly it’s New Year’s Day. It’s not possible that the poet, who was obsessed with numerology, lost count. So what happened? 1/2

Today is the Feast day of the Holy Innocents, also called #Childermas, or Holy Innocents' Day, this festival is celebrated in the Christian churches in the West on December 28
and in the Eastern churches on December 29th, commemorating the story/myth of the massacre of the children by King Herod in his attempt to kill the infant Jesus.