Sunday

Horseback riding fatelavn


I'm too ill at the moment to go very far, but I would
have loved to go to a part of Copenhagen called
Amager to see how they keep up a very old tradition:
to 'slå katten af tønden' from horseback. It was first
done in the 1600s - and traditions are still the same.
The photo is from 1929 - found here Horseback riding
fastelavn also takes place in other regions of Denmark -
see the old photos from Veksø here

2 comments:

MONICA said...

Curious and nice fest. Thanks for share this interesting post.
enjoy this fest :D

Aputsiaq said...

Thanks for your comments, Monica ;O)