Goose poem
The goose poem is a traditional custom in table culture. On St. Martin's Day on November 11th, the custom has been described since at least the 17th century to recite a poem on the subject of geese before or during the meal . The demands on the geese poems varied depending on the state or region. For the Landesschule Pforta , a boarding high school in Naumburg (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt , for example, the formation of table communities in which the meals on Martin's Day were divided according to age has been handed down. The youngest member of the community was only entitled to part of the St. Martin's goose in this ritual if he could perform a goose poem he had written himself in Latin. The theologian and court preacher Bernhard Rogge , who attended this school from 1843 to 1850, also reports on the tradition of goose poems.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goose poem . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 4 : Forschel – retainer - (IV, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1878, Sp. 1270 ( woerterbuchnetz.de - the entry Gänsegedicht refers to a work by Samuel von Butschky [1612–1678]).
- ^ Heiner Ullrich, Susanne Strunck: Promotion of gifted students at high schools . Springer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15885-3 , pp. 157 ( Google Books ).
- ↑ Bernhard Friedrich Wilhelm Rogge: From seven decades: memories from my life . tape 1 . Verlag C. Meyer, 1897, p. 96 .