Haha, sláinte. The only reason I know that is…I guess I can’t say until our resident cannibal learns what it is but…Skål, for faen!!
No idea of the origin of New Year, but the Wiki article was pretty interesting, except I have no clue how reliable Wiki really is, unfortunately. :/ But it says on there that Jesus was circumcised on January 1st, except I don’t think that has anything to do with the New Year, because the article says that the New Year before was on the 25th of December, and was moved to the first not all that long ago.
Despite that, the Romans had their new year on January first, although I’m unclear as to whether or not they did anything special about it. when you make people massacre each other in a pit every weekend, who needs no n00jeaRz haha
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The New Year has been observed by many different cultures though, from China to the Aztecs. Not sure who came up with it first…