In Denmark, the solstitial celebration is called Sankt Hans aften ("St. John's Eve"). It was an official holiday until 1770, and in accordance with the Danish tradition of celebrating a holiday on the evening before the actual day, it takes place on the evening of 23 June. It is the day where the mediaeval wise men and women (the doctors of that time) would gather special herbs that they needed for the rest of the year to cure people.

It has been celebrated since the times of the Vikings and of Odin and Thor, by visiting healing water sources and making a large bonfire to ward away evil spirits. Today the water source tradition is gone. Bonfires on the beach, speeches, picnics and songs are traditional, although bonfires are built in many other places where beaches may not be close by (i.e. on the shores of lakes and other waterways, parks, etc.). In the 1920s a tradition of putting a witch made of straw and cloth on the bonfire emerged as a remembrance of the church's witchburnings from 1540 to 1693 (but unofficially a witch was lynched as late as 1897). This burning sends the witch to Bloksbjerg, the mountain 'Brocken' in the Harz region of Germany where the great witch gathering was thought to be held on this day.

Holger Drachmann and P.E. Lange-Müller wrote a beautiful midsommervise (Midsummer hymn) in 1885 called "Vi elsker vort land..." ("We Love Our Land") that is sung at every bonfire on this evening.

um...
why is this thread here? it sounds like something you would find on the back of a candy wrapper...
word, hommies.

Wow, I never knew Multi wasn't in the US or UK (<---England, Scotland, Whales, or Ireland). How many other people on these boards aren't from around there? Or did Multi just look that up on wiki....

then my english isent as bad as i thought

It isnt, sure you make grammatical errors once in a while but they are logical errors based on the fact that your brain has to translate things first through your language's grammatcial structure.

And then on the other hand we have people like Xavior running arround saying that English is their native born language, really makes you wonder.

imbaricing

isent

I got them i the "brain" and can speak em out loud,

(that last one just doesn't make sense, is the"i" supposed to be in? That would be just a weird typo if it was).

(Demarkian, lol GEORGE BUSH)

Not only did I not know that you were a Dane, I keep thinking that you're female because of your icon (I know that your male though. Your icon was some lady in Nexus who had lived with the ghosts or whatever and could cloak the Angelwing).

like in supcom beta, some guy PM me and said nasty sexual things

it is a sad day indeed when a man finds sexual gratification in a video game...

Multianna where in Denmark are you from? I am from Norway, The southern part of Norway.
(You are lucky to live in Denmark, You can buy beer from Texaco.)As you most likely know we have much more stricter polices on alcohol) In about to weeks time i and my friends will go to Denmark on a drinking trip. Hehe. I know it`s off topic. But i thought i was the only one from Scandinavia here.