In Scotland, Handsel Monday or Hansel Monday is the first Monday of the year. Traditionally, gifts (Scots: Hansels) were given at this time. Among the... 4 KB (392 words) - 21:43, 4 March 2024 |
 | Easter Monday, also Bright Monday or Wet Monday First Monday Handsel Monday Lundi Gras Mad Monday Miracle Monday Plough Monday Shrove Monday Wet Monday Whit... 17 KB (1,798 words) - 07:25, 9 April 2024 |
 | Hogmanay (section Handsel Day) the first Monday of the New Year. A roast dinner would be eaten to celebrate the festival. Handsel was a word for gift and hence "Handsel Day". In modern... 30 KB (3,333 words) - 18:22, 31 January 2024 |
 | by the Gaels upon St. Andrew's Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Handsel Monday, and Candlemas. The Bard's account of the annual match played upon New... 16 KB (1,978 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2024 |
Writes (short stories, 2014) "Grave Import" (1996) "Like To Die" (1997) "Handsel Monday" in Past Poisons (1998) "The Man Who Rowed for the Shore" (1998) "Gold... 6 KB (554 words) - 02:23, 7 April 2024 |
 | Gàidhealtachd upon St. Andrew's Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Handsel Monday, and Candlemas. The bard's account of the annual New Year's Day match... 34 KB (4,039 words) - 22:39, 25 March 2024 |
 | by the Gaels upon St. Andrew's Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Handsel Monday, and Candlemas, to the much colder Canadian winter climate by playing... 64 KB (6,341 words) - 10:18, 23 March 2024 |
liturgics) Earliest day on which Handsel Monday can fall, while January 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of the year (Scotland) Second day... 167 KB (14,752 words) - 16:30, 10 April 2024 |
 | parts of Scotland." The period of festivities running from Christmas to Handsel Monday, including Hogmanay and Ne'erday, is known as the Daft Days. Christmas... 10 KB (980 words) - 06:07, 14 April 2024 |
General Roman Calendar of 1960) First Monday: January 6 Handsel Monday (Scotland and Northern England) Monday after January 6: January 12 Baptism of... 10 KB (1,156 words) - 20:35, 19 February 2024 |
 | from Callander in Perthshire, this having its roots in traditional Handsel Monday holiday mass-participation games (which also led to the formation of... 31 KB (4,200 words) - 13:49, 27 February 2024 |
played by the Gaels on St. Andrew's Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Handsel Monday, and Candlemas. The Bard's account of the annual match played upon New... 13 KB (1,762 words) - 22:54, 19 February 2024 |
played on Glasgow Green which themselves had roots in the traditional Handsel Monday holiday mass-participation events, introduced to the city by men from... 14 KB (1,271 words) - 16:17, 21 April 2024 |
 | "was lately purchased of Captain Covells" Small howitzer shell left on Handsel Monday wounds Margaret Callender's hands and eyes, for which she asks customers'... 26 KB (2,528 words) - 03:38, 7 March 2024 |
by the Gaels upon St. Andrew's Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Handsel Monday, and Candlemas. The Bard's account of the annual match played upon New... 114 KB (15,394 words) - 21:20, 2 April 2024 |
Others" by Martin Edwards "Psalm for a Dead Disciple" by Edward Marston "Handsel Monday" by Catherine Aird "An Academic Question" by John Maddox Roberts (51... 5 KB (379 words) - 16:34, 10 June 2023 |
are included in the Scottish Poetry Library's anthologies, Handfast and Handsel respectively. His poems "Crabbit Angels" and "Cleikit" were published in... 16 KB (1,905 words) - 08:31, 24 April 2024 |
 | Hamilton, Bloomsbury, 1995. The Poems of Edward Thomas, ed. Peter Sacks, Handsel Books, 2003. The Annotated Collected Poems, ed. Edna Longley, Bloodaxe... 41 KB (4,462 words) - 13:52, 8 April 2024 |