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Jul i engelsktalende lande
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Juletraditioner og tekster om jul
Om Juletraditioner og tekster om jul
Christmas Carols
King's College i Cambridge er berømt for sit kor, der bl.a. synger Christmas Carols.
En kollega bruger salmen O Come All Ye Faithful og bruger derefter de to danske oversættelser: 1. 'Kom, alle kristne' (som står i Den Danske Salmebog online,) og 2. 'Kom, tro, og kom, glæde' af Johannes Johansen (som også kan findes på nettet) til at diskutere oversættelse/gendigtning/anvendelse.
Juleevangeliet
The Holy Bible (King James' Version)
Audio Bible (King James' Version). Benytter Real Player som skal være installeret på computeren.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Father Christmas Letters
When John (Tolkien's son) was 3 he got his first letter from Father Christmas. From 1920 until 1943 Tolkien wrote letters, as Father Christmas, to his children. They were accompagnied by lots of funny pictures.
Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively's novelle 'Loved Ones: A Christmas Fairy Tale' kan findes i Crossroads 1 (Jarl Damskier og Karen Weidick)(Systime 2003).
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
- Terry Pratchett's Hogfather is a two-part television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by The Mob, and first broadcast on Sky One, and in High Definition on Sky1 HD, over Christmas 2006.
- Plot The series closely follows the plot of the novel, in which the Hogfather, the Discworld equivalent to Father Christmas, has gone missing, and Death is forced to take his place, while his granddaughter Susan attempts to find out what happened.
- The Hogfather
- The Discworld's version of Father Christmas or Santa Claus. He wears a red, fur-lined cloak, and rides a sleigh pulled by four wild boars (or, in modern portrayals, cute pink piggies), Gouger, Rooter, Tusker and Snouter. In earlier times he gave households pork products, and naughty children a bag of bloody bones. Earlier than that, he was a winter god of the death-and-renewal kind. The modern version is a jolly toymaker, with vestiges of the earlier myths (such as his Castle of Bones, a vast palace of ice which has nothing notably bony about it, except for the suggestion of a protruding femur or scapula here and there) still clinging to him.
- In the book Hogfather, the Hogfather first appears in the manifestation of a wild boar. Death and his granddaughter Susan manage to save him, in order that the sun might rise in the morning. Without the Hogfather, according to Death, the Discworld would merely be 'ILLUMINATED BY A BALL OF GLOWING GAS.'
- The Hogfather is one of a number of beings that hover on the boundary between "god" and "personification", yet probably is best thought of as the latter, since people still receive presents at Hogswatchnight, even if they no longer believe in him. The Hogfather was first mentioned in Reaper Man and dealt with extensively in Hogfather.
Christmas in the USA
The variations of the Christmas traditions of USA equal the number active cultures that have settled in the land. These cultural contributions were given a new lease of life by creative artists, authors, poets and songwriters, and it was melded together by the power of secular and commercialized media in record companies, radio stations, television, cinemas and now the internet.
Interaktiv julekalender
Forskellige juleaktiviteter. Hvordan fejres jul i forskellige lande?
Christmas Calendar
- Here you will find a calendar of links to various English activities to use in the classroom or at home.
- They are, naturally, all related to Christmas.
- What hides behind the numbers? Find out by yourselves
Christmas Cake
Måske skulle man lade en elev fra klassen lave en klassisk Christmas Cake?
Paul Auster, Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
Paul Austers 'Auggie Wren's Christmas Story' kan jo altid bruges. Det er også muligt at få historien illustreret ved at se filmen Smoke. Teksten kan findes i Crossroads 1 (Jarl Damskier og Karen Weidick)(Systime 2003) og på nettet.
Jason Starr, The Christmas Card
Man kunne jo også læse Jason Starrs, 'The Christmas Card', som kan findes i Torben L. Christensens og Ole Faaborgs, 'Let's Face The World' (Systime 2002). (Den kan også findes elektronisk på nettet).
Truman Capote, One Christmas, A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor
'One Christmas' af Truman Capote - selvbiografisk historie om rejse fra land til by, om mødet med en letlevende og avanceret far, om uskyldstab og ulykke. Yderligere er der i det lille bind 'A Christmas Memory' og 'The Thanksgiving Visitor'. Bogen kan lånes på bibliotek.dk. (ISBN: 0-679-60237-2)
Liverpool Nativity (Liverpool evangeliet) TV
En timelang gendigtning af Juleevangeliet fra TV (udsendt på BBC og DR) i december 2007 - i anledning af at Liverpool er europæisk kulturby i 2008. Hele byen deltager i dette show med melodier af The Beatles og andre Liverpool grupper.
Se de andre afsnit på YouTube