quiz on the Swedish Easter

[kattahj]

I made this quiz for no reason at all except that this holiday with its strange traditions and names really amuses me. You should answer because when I told C. what I was doing, she said that asking Yanks about the Swedish Easter "is like asking children about Karl IX. Technically it's possible they might know something, but how likely is it

Comments

[mofic]

I know nothing but I'm happy to guess. Tonight/tomorrow is a holiday for me, too: Purim.

[kattahj]

Yeah, I heard. People were mentioning it re: the suggested strike, that a lot of posters would be missing anyway since there are two holidays at once.

I hope you have a good Purim!

[mofic]

Well Purim isn't the kind of holiday where you stop doing anything. But thanks for the good wishes! I hope you have a nice Easter, whatever it's called there :-).

[kattahj]

Glad you had fun - I'll put the answers up eventually.

[stasha2g]

I R In Ur Polls Skuing Ur Risalts Vith Mai Mäd Finnis Gessis Nolitz!

In other words, I suspect a red herring, but feel pretty confident anyway. *g*

[kattahj]

You did really well. And yes, one of the questions has two correct answers. :-)

[sarcasticwriter]

I'm amazingly ignorant on the subject, but I had fun trying to guess. You might be amused by some of my rationalizations ("That Saint Lucia chick didn't seem to have much to do with Christmas, ergo, the Swedish word for Easter comes from a Greek goddess," and "Kat and I talked about herring that one time, so clearly that's all anybody in Sweden eats.").

I'm interested enough that I'm going to go research now so I don't have to wait for answers.

[kattahj]

The answers are up here. The English Easter and German Ostern come from the goddess Eos/Eostre/Ostara (name depending on country), but the Swedes are the odd ducks out there. Östen is a word, but it's a boy's name.

You're absolutely right about the herring, though. :-)