The Boar's Head Carol

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Bringing in the Boar's Head , from the Christmas 1855 Supplement to the Illustrated London News
Julschinken (Christmas ham ) from Sweden

The Boar's head carol ( Eberkopf-Carol ) is a macaron traditional English Christmas carol from the time before 1500, which describes the sacrifice of a boar for Yule .

Of various versions of this carol, the most common today is the Carolles Mass from the 1521 published in Wynkyn de Wordes .

It is sung every Christmas at Queen's College , Oxford .

More modern arrangements come from Elizabeth Poston and David Willcocks .

text

Text from 1521

Caput afri differo
Redden's 'laudes' domino.
The bores heed in hand I bring,
With garlans gay and rosemary,
I pray you all synge merely
Qui estis in convivio.
The bores heed, I failed
Is the 'chefe' seruyce in this country;
Loke, where your found it
Seruite cum cantico.
Be gladde lordes, both more and lasse,
For this hath ordeyned our stewarde
To chere you all this Christian mass,
The bores heed with mustarde.

Newer version from Queen's College

The boar's head in hand bear I,
Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary;
And I pray you, my masters, be merry,
Quot estis in convivio
Caput Apri defero
Redden's laudes dominoes.
The boar's head, as I understand,
Is the rarest disk in all this country,
Which thus bedeck'd with a gay garland,
Let us serve cantico.
Caput Apri defero
Redden's laudes dominoes.
Our steward hath provided this
In honor of the King of Bliss;
Which is on this day to be served
In reginensi atrio.
Caput Apri defero
Redden's laudes dominoes.

literature

  • William Sandys: Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London: Richard Beckley, 1833)
  • William Henry Husk: Songs of the Nativity (London: John Camden Hotten, 1868)
  • John Richard Magrath, The Queen's College. Volume II (1646-1877) (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1921) ( digitized )
  • Géza von Neményi: songs of the past : songs of gods, heroic songs and old folk songs . 2013 ( online excerpt with German transmission )

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Spears, James E. Folklore, Vol. 85, no. 3. (Autumn, 1974), pp. 194-198 ( JSTOR )
  2. ^ Husk, William Henry. Songs of the Nativity Being Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern. London: John Camden Hotten, 1868 reprinted by Norwood Editions, Norwood, PA, 1973. Digitally reproduced and annotated in: A Treasury of Christmas Carols: The Hymns and Carols of Christmas (hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com)