{"id":4326,"date":"2024-12-17T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T09:49:08","slug":"lost-days-and-old-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/library\/2024\/12\/17\/lost-days-and-old-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Days and old Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Lost Days and Old Christmas<\/h1>\n<p>We are nearing the end of this leap year, a year when we have one extra day in February. If you are celebrating Christmas on December 25th spare a thought for the residents of the Shetland island of Foula who will not celebrate Christmas until 6th January. Why would they do this?<\/p>\n<p>It all stems from the changes made to the calendar used in the UK in the 1700s. Up until 1752 the calendar used in Britain was the Julian Calendar. 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That is why in some places people still call the 6th January Old Christmas Day. Today, Foula in the Shetland Islands is one of the last places to celebrate Christmas and New Year on the old calendar dates. While they don\u2019t live by the Julian calendar on a daily basis, the Foula community takes advantage of these special dates to celebrate their strong Norse tradition of folklore and music, with islanders traditionally gathering in one house to celebrate the Old Christmas with traditional music, songs and play guidicks \u2013 Shetland dialect riddles.<\/p>\n<p>Old Christmas or Yule takes place on 6th January and New Year on 13th January. In the past Yule celebrations would last 24 days with barn dances and traditions such as playing ba\u2019 &#8211; a form of football but seemingly without rules &#8211; using a ball made from a pig\u2019s bladder. This was a feature of Yule celebrations until the early 20th century in Shetland. 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