NationStates Jolt Archive

December 13, Lyciadag where I live. Went to the Lycia thing, and as a foreigner I thought it was interesting. Is a big deal here, on Åland, from what I've seen.

What does your town do, you lovable Swedes or Finlandsvensk?

Guh?

Interesting how? What do they do there?

Guh?
Half hiccup, half inquisition?

They wear a coniferous crown with lit candels stuck in it, break out into song, give us glög (a sometimes alcholic Christmas beverage), and wear white gowns and stuff. The funny thing is, St. Lycia, which this whole thing is based on, was a burnett, and all the Swedish girls that usually get this are blondes. I liken it to American prom King and Queen, or maybe homecoming....

That and the Lycia conidates are pretty, well, pretty.

Half hiccup, half inquisition?

They wear a coniferous crown with lit candels stuck in it, break out into song, give us glög (a sometimes alcholic Christmas beverage), and wear white gowns and stuff. The funny thing is, St. Lycia, which this whole thing is based on, was a burnett, and all the Swedish girls that usually get this are blondes. I liken it to American prom King and Queen, or maybe homecoming....

That and the Lycia conidates are pretty, well, pretty.

sometimes alcoholic? So it's like an evil, evil lottery?

sometimes alcoholic? So it's like an evil, evil lottery?
Its evil, in the sense that there is that small possibility to get wasted in a house of God and nail a chick with candles on her head ontop of the altar, but a very high probability of that not happening.

Its evil, in the sense that there is that small possibility to get wasted in a house of God and nail a chick with candles on her head ontop of the altar, but a very high probability of that not happening.

I still don't quite understand how it's sometimes alcoholic. Do they sometimes make a non-alcoholic batch, or what?

I still don't quite understand how it's sometimes alcoholic. Do they sometimes make a non-alcoholic batch, or what?
Yeah. I couldn't think of any other way it could be, unless when they cook it, it becomes non-alcholic, or alcholic.

Kinda like trying for a boy, but nine months later, PLOP! "Jim" isn't gonna work for this one.

I'd say glög should always be alcoholic. It tastes good warm too (think Wine, with raisins, and nuts).

I wouldn't say it's anything like American prom queen or anything of that sort. I usually just bake a lot of Luciabread (mmm... Luciabread) and then as a kid we used to all walk around with four candles stuck to our head and sing :P There wasn't any picking out who was the most beautiful or anything (hence, not like American prom king/queen). Nor should there be, as far as I know.

I'd say glög should always be alcoholic. It tastes good warm too (think Wine, with raisins, and nuts).
I'm tired of gambling with my booze cash! Give my 100% krunk guarentee!

Well, here in Mariehamn, the town, not inside my anatomy, there was a Lycia election for all of Åland. There were also various voting booths for the other, slightly more localized, Lycia canidates, thus why I compare it to the American prom king and queen. And, as a foreigner, I just tried to make since of it, and of the candidates, one of the underdogs won. It just came off as sort of a popularity contest, but it might just be me, as I don't have a clue as to the inner working of society here. I saw just someone's first name on the front padge, and I thought, "Wow, like I know who they are." Granted it was later on in the article, more inside the paper, but back in the good ol' USA, we assume you know nobody, and use full names, or last names, all the time. :P