News at Eleven: An old Welsh term for winter solstice

is "the point of roughness." A few days after solstice, in a celebration with origins most likely in Celtic mythology, a group of boys would kill a wren and carry it through the village, singing and asking for money.

This Point of Roughness

By Rhonda Ganz

from The Victoria Times Colonist: Poetry to warm the wintry soul: Rhonda Ganz
also The Victoria Times Colonist: Poetry to warm the wintry soul: Garth Martens

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