Nu bæres lyset frem... etc.

[oneiriad]

Spent most of the day strolling through Copenhagen and Christmas shopping with a friend. There's a song that talks about "the yearly migration up and down Strøget" - very accurate. Had lunch at a restaurant that served me a bowl of raw pieces of meat (don't look at me like that, I haven't had fondue for years - I missed it). Alas, still haven't bought all this year's presents.

Saw a bunch of girls in white singing a somewhat gospel-influenced round of Lucia songs in Illum. It made me remember something I've been meaning to mention, about Lucia not really making sense in it's current form. All the other light festivals are crowding around the solstice, the longest night of the year, but Lucia is on the 13th - until you remember that the 13th was around the solstice just before the switch to the Gregorian calendar. Just saying.