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Good King Wenceslas - English Christmas Carol

Good King Wenceslas - English Christmas Carol

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TitleGood King Wenceslas - English Christmas Carol
AuthorPatriotic Archive
Duration3:06
File FormatMP3 / MP4
Original URL https://youtube.com/watch?v=uB6WWulhCVs

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"Good King Wenceslas" (Roud number 24754) is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a Bohemian king (modern-day Czech Republic) who goes on a journey, braving harsh winter weather, to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (December 26, the Second Day of Christmas). During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step, through the deep snow. The legend is based on the life of the Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907–935), who was not a king but a duke.

In 1853, English hymnwriter John Mason Neale translated and adapted the lyric from a Czech poem by Václav Alois Svoboda, in collaboration with his music editor Thomas Helmore, and the carol first appeared in Carols for Christmas-Tide, published by Novello & Co the same year. Neale's lyric was set to the melody of the 13th-century spring carol "Tempus adest floridum" ("Eastertime Is Come") first published in the 1582 Finnish song collection Piae Cantiones.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas

Preformed by the Roger Wagner Chorale

Links to the images:

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/eleanor-fortescue-brickdale-good-king-wenceslas

http://www.classichistory.net/archives/king-wenceslas

https://www.antiques-atlas.com/antique/jessie_m_king_print_good_king_wenceslas_a_carol_/as289a248

https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Trelleek/232306/King-Wenceslas-(c.907-c.929)-from-Peeps-into-the-Past%2C-published-c.1900-.html

https://allthingsukulele.com/2016/11/20/good-king-wenceslas-chordmelody-arrangement-by-ukulele-mike-lynch-included-in-the-christmas-chord-melody-ebook-23-95/

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