March 17, 2020
Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Timothy Birdnow
Top 'O the morning to ye! (And the rest of the day for meself!) Wishing everyone a fun and happy St. Patrick's day, even if every celebration of the Wearin' O' the Green has been canceled. Me, I'm going to cook up some corned beef and cabbage and drink a little dram of whiskey.
Here is a link to a Catholic website telling all about the patron saint of Ireland. Patrick was imprisoned in Ireland as a boy and escaped from slavery. As he came to know The Lord he felt called to return to Ireland and bring the Good News of Salvation to the largly barbarous peoples of the Emerald Isles.
Do read it all and ponder it. And do celebrate the man who Christianized Ireland and drove out all the snakes (so the legend has it.)
Top 'O the morning to ye! (And the rest of the day for meself!) Wishing everyone a fun and happy St. Patrick's day, even if every celebration of the Wearin' O' the Green has been canceled. Me, I'm going to cook up some corned beef and cabbage and drink a little dram of whiskey.
Here is a link to a Catholic website telling all about the patron saint of Ireland. Patrick was imprisoned in Ireland as a boy and escaped from slavery. As he came to know The Lord he felt called to return to Ireland and bring the Good News of Salvation to the largly barbarous peoples of the Emerald Isles.
Do read it all and ponder it. And do celebrate the man who Christianized Ireland and drove out all the snakes (so the legend has it.)
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There's a story going around that St. Patrick actually drove the Norwegians out of Ireland because they were eating all the fish and the potatoes. So the Irish refused to sell them ice to keep the fish cold (so it would spoil) and, for good measure, poured lye on the fish, but the Norwegians just thought this made the fish taste better, and they called it lutefisk, which in Norwegian means "luscious fish." They used the potatoes to make lefse. So in desperation Paddy told the Irish to go to hell, which the Norwegians misunderstood (have you ever heard Norwegian spoken with an Irish accent?) as Minnesota. To this day, Norwegians in Minnesota eat lutefisk, though not necessarily on St. Patrick's Day.
Your history lesson for the day. No need to thank me; I do these things as a public service.
Your history lesson for the day. No need to thank me; I do these things as a public service.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at March 17, 2020 10:13 AM (9yEgJ)
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Lutefish in a Minnesota winter surely does sound like Dante's vision of lower Hell...
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at March 18, 2020 06:36 AM (VaMtg)
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