Monday, July 5. 2010
Wilhelmus von Oranien bin ich von deutschem Blut, by Rudolf Fischer
Ed: Rudolf Fischer writes from Budapest of last Friday's Dutch victory over Brazil in the soccer World Cup;
What a glorious way to remember on the 2nd what took place on the 1st of July 1690 according to the non-papist calendar of the time -
That Wesley S. scored the 2nd goal after being the prompter of Julius Caesar's "...." adds an extra touch.
In my mind's ear I can hear the VUVUZELA as an ison (Ed:?) to the LAMBEG.
Up the Lilywhites!
Ed: The Battle of the Boyne, won by the Dutch William of Orange, was fought on 1st July 1689 - see my brief references in Oranges and Carrots, both of Friday, July 2. 2010. The calendar then in use was the Julian, but Britain changed to the more astronomically-accurate Gregorian calendar in the 18th century, when there was a difference of 11 days.
C.S. Lewis used the term 'papist' consistently throughout the volume he wrote of the Oxford History of English Literature (which Lewis called OHEL). This was Volume IV, Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century (1954). [Originally entitled English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama]. A pupil, and later Professor of English, John Wain, regarded OHEL as Lewis's greatest book.
No doubt Lewis had sound historical reasons for his choice of words. But it's said, whether truly or not, that this was one factor in the cooling of J.R.R. Tolkien's friendship with Lewis (Tolkien was a Roman Catholic), which Lewis much regretted. There were other factors. Tolkien, it was said, resented Lewis's friendship with Charles Williams, who came to Oxford in the war years, and thoroughly disapproved of Joy Davidman. See Papist (Wikipedia).
I'm curious about the Christian name of Wesley Sneijder. Can there be Methodists in the Netherlands? Sneijder scored two goals in the Dutch victory over Brazil. The first was a long-range effort which crossed the goalline after an error by the Brazil's goalkeeper Júlio César whom Rudi calls "Julius Caesar". Sneijder headed his second goal. You can watch both on YouTube here.
And you can listen to a Vuvuzela-Konzert given by the Vuvuzela Group of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on YouTube.
Lambeg is a village on the River Lagan, situated between Lisburn and Belfast. The drum to which the village has given its name is played is a huge instrument, played at some Orange demonstations (the Wikipedia entry tells us that the Nationalist Ancient Order of Hibernians uses the Lambeg drum as well as well).
The Lambeg is played with curved malacca canes and creates a fearful din. Whether it is louder than the vuvuzela, I don't know. A combination would certainly be my idea of hell!
The "Lilywhites" is a nickname given to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, which Rudi must have supported during his time in London.
What a glorious way to remember on the 2nd what took place on the 1st of July 1690 according to the non-papist calendar of the time -
That Wesley S. scored the 2nd goal after being the prompter of Julius Caesar's "...." adds an extra touch.
In my mind's ear I can hear the VUVUZELA as an ison (Ed:?) to the LAMBEG.
Up the Lilywhites!
Ed: The Battle of the Boyne, won by the Dutch William of Orange, was fought on 1st July 1689 - see my brief references in Oranges and Carrots, both of Friday, July 2. 2010. The calendar then in use was the Julian, but Britain changed to the more astronomically-accurate Gregorian calendar in the 18th century, when there was a difference of 11 days.
C.S. Lewis used the term 'papist' consistently throughout the volume he wrote of the Oxford History of English Literature (which Lewis called OHEL). This was Volume IV, Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century (1954). [Originally entitled English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama]. A pupil, and later Professor of English, John Wain, regarded OHEL as Lewis's greatest book.
No doubt Lewis had sound historical reasons for his choice of words. But it's said, whether truly or not, that this was one factor in the cooling of J.R.R. Tolkien's friendship with Lewis (Tolkien was a Roman Catholic), which Lewis much regretted. There were other factors. Tolkien, it was said, resented Lewis's friendship with Charles Williams, who came to Oxford in the war years, and thoroughly disapproved of Joy Davidman. See Papist (Wikipedia).
I'm curious about the Christian name of Wesley Sneijder. Can there be Methodists in the Netherlands? Sneijder scored two goals in the Dutch victory over Brazil. The first was a long-range effort which crossed the goalline after an error by the Brazil's goalkeeper Júlio César whom Rudi calls "Julius Caesar". Sneijder headed his second goal. You can watch both on YouTube here.
Vuvuzelas
Lambeg is a village on the River Lagan, situated between Lisburn and Belfast. The drum to which the village has given its name is played is a huge instrument, played at some Orange demonstations (the Wikipedia entry tells us that the Nationalist Ancient Order of Hibernians uses the Lambeg drum as well as well).
The Lambeg drum
The "Lilywhites" is a nickname given to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, which Rudi must have supported during his time in London.
More on Glossinger, by Don Glossinger
Ed: In "Glossinger", Thursday, July 1. 2010, I began to discuss the name 'Glossinger'. Don Glossinger (Michigan City, Indiana) sends this response ;
I have communicated with some of the German Glossingers. One of them told me that their people came from Bavaria. The most famous person of the name is John Glossinger who promoted the O'Henry candy bar in Chicago in the last century (a).
It seems that he was a most positive thinking salesman. From what I have read on the Internet he believed he could promote the candy bar, but there was no money for an ad campaign so he made up bumper stickers that said, "OH HENRY!" and plastered them on cars throughout the city. Of course it worked. I would be proud to be related to him, but I am not.
You've heard of the man without a country? Sometimes I feel like the man without a name. My natural father was called Hamilton. My step-father, the man who raised me, was called Glossinger, but this is not our original name. As late as 1911, my great-grandfather of the name got married under the name Glossender.
Over the years the name has been Glossenger, Glossinger, and Glassender, Glossender, etc... The first ancestor in these parts said he was born in Connecticut. In Connecticut there was a William Glossinger who served in the 14th Connecticut Infantry during the American Civil War. He saw a lot of action, and was wounded at Fredricksburg [1st Battle Dec 1862, 2nd Battle May 1863]. I have a copy of a letter he wrote from the Gettysburg battlefield [Ed: July 1863]. He was finally killed at the Battle of the Wilderness in [Ed: May] 1864. In his military records there appears the name in all the variant forms mentioned above. When the men got married, prior to about 1915, they would generally use the name Glassender or Glossender. The earliest record is of a John Glossender in Connecticut marrying a lady called Jemima Hollister in 1788 and the record states he was from "Sweadland".
Dr. Nils Olsson, the accomplished Swedish genealogist, was kind enough to look at all this and conjectured that the name is actually Gasslander or Gaslander, as there are no Glassenders in Sweden. Looks like the tongues of the New Englanders got tangled up with this unusual moniker and thereby began the creation of a new name for us. First of the name Dr. Olsson could find was a Peter Gaslander or Petrus b. circa 1680. He was a Lutheran minister of some note. I have seen likenesses of him and one of his grandsons and the resemblance to members of my family is very striking. It seems this minister was the son of a farmer from a place called Gasslanda. Adding the "der" to his name was a mark of his rising status apparently.
Thanks your interest in the name!
Editor's note
(a) See Oh Henry! - Wikipedia.
"O'Henry" is not a genuine Irish name, just a mock one. O. Henry was the pseudonym used by the important American writer William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910), whose short stories are known for the twists in their endings.
The surname "Henry", on the other hand, is known, and Robert Bell (The Book of Ulster Surnames, Belfast 1988) deals with it in his long entry on "Henderson (also Hendrie, Hendron, Henry, MacHenry and MacKendry)". The forename Henry, Old French Henri, was early gaelicised as Eanruig. The Glencoe Hendersons, for example. anglicised their name from Mac Eanruig and claimed descent from Eanruig Mór Mac Righ Neachtain. 'Big Henry, son of King Neachtan', a semi-legendary Pictish king of the 7th century.
In short, the surname 'Henry' can be either Scottish or Irish in origin. In Ireland, a branch of the O'Kanes of North Antrim and Derry, the Mac Éinrί, anglicised to 'Mac Henry', and the name was further anglicised to 'Henry'. In Co. Tyrone the O'Henerys were a sept whose Gaelic name was Ó hInnéirghe. 'O'Henery' was further anglicised to 'Henry'.
Sir Denis Henry (1864-1925) was a Catholic and Unionist Member of Parliament who became the first Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland - on whom Dr Éamon Phoenix is an expert - see Eamon Phoenix talk, Wednesday, March 17. 2010) and Who are today’s political misfits?.
Paul Henry, 1877-1958, born in Belfast, was one of the greatest Irish painters of the 20th century.
Another Paul Henry was a contemporary of mine. He slaughtered me at chess in a schools' match when he represented St Malachy's Grammar School, Belfast. Within a few years he became Irish Chess Champion (1970). Paul took two degrees in maths at Cambridge but then changed career and is today a medical doctor, living outside Belfast. I met Paul once again when he turned up with his son to attend one of our C.S. Lewis tours in 1998. [See Paul Henry (June 1996) on the Irish Chess Union site.]
ä ö ü Ä Ë Ö Ü ß ê î Î â  ă Ă Ş Ţ Ç ş šŠ ţ ç Á É Í Ó Ú á é í ó ú À à è Ő ő ű ñ ï ë Ł ź ¡ ć ï æ û
Αα Ββ Γγ Δδ Εε Ζζ Ηη Θθ Ιι Κκ Λλ Μμ Νν Ξξ Οο Ππ Ρρ Σσς Ττ Υυ Φφ Χχ Ψψ Ωω ᾲ ᾴ ῂ ῄ ὶ ί ῦ ώ ύ
I have communicated with some of the German Glossingers. One of them told me that their people came from Bavaria. The most famous person of the name is John Glossinger who promoted the O'Henry candy bar in Chicago in the last century (a).
Oh Henry! bar
You've heard of the man without a country? Sometimes I feel like the man without a name. My natural father was called Hamilton. My step-father, the man who raised me, was called Glossinger, but this is not our original name. As late as 1911, my great-grandfather of the name got married under the name Glossender.
Over the years the name has been Glossenger, Glossinger, and Glassender, Glossender, etc... The first ancestor in these parts said he was born in Connecticut. In Connecticut there was a William Glossinger who served in the 14th Connecticut Infantry during the American Civil War. He saw a lot of action, and was wounded at Fredricksburg [1st Battle Dec 1862, 2nd Battle May 1863]. I have a copy of a letter he wrote from the Gettysburg battlefield [Ed: July 1863]. He was finally killed at the Battle of the Wilderness in [Ed: May] 1864. In his military records there appears the name in all the variant forms mentioned above. When the men got married, prior to about 1915, they would generally use the name Glassender or Glossender. The earliest record is of a John Glossender in Connecticut marrying a lady called Jemima Hollister in 1788 and the record states he was from "Sweadland".
Dr. Nils Olsson, the accomplished Swedish genealogist, was kind enough to look at all this and conjectured that the name is actually Gasslander or Gaslander, as there are no Glassenders in Sweden. Looks like the tongues of the New Englanders got tangled up with this unusual moniker and thereby began the creation of a new name for us. First of the name Dr. Olsson could find was a Peter Gaslander or Petrus b. circa 1680. He was a Lutheran minister of some note. I have seen likenesses of him and one of his grandsons and the resemblance to members of my family is very striking. It seems this minister was the son of a farmer from a place called Gasslanda. Adding the "der" to his name was a mark of his rising status apparently.
Thanks your interest in the name!
Editor's note
(a) See Oh Henry! - Wikipedia.
"O'Henry" is not a genuine Irish name, just a mock one. O. Henry was the pseudonym used by the important American writer William Sydney Porter (1862 – 1910), whose short stories are known for the twists in their endings.
The surname "Henry", on the other hand, is known, and Robert Bell (The Book of Ulster Surnames, Belfast 1988) deals with it in his long entry on "Henderson (also Hendrie, Hendron, Henry, MacHenry and MacKendry)". The forename Henry, Old French Henri, was early gaelicised as Eanruig. The Glencoe Hendersons, for example. anglicised their name from Mac Eanruig and claimed descent from Eanruig Mór Mac Righ Neachtain. 'Big Henry, son of King Neachtan', a semi-legendary Pictish king of the 7th century.
In short, the surname 'Henry' can be either Scottish or Irish in origin. In Ireland, a branch of the O'Kanes of North Antrim and Derry, the Mac Éinrί, anglicised to 'Mac Henry', and the name was further anglicised to 'Henry'. In Co. Tyrone the O'Henerys were a sept whose Gaelic name was Ó hInnéirghe. 'O'Henery' was further anglicised to 'Henry'.
Sir Denis Henry (1864-1925) was a Catholic and Unionist Member of Parliament who became the first Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland - on whom Dr Éamon Phoenix is an expert - see Eamon Phoenix talk, Wednesday, March 17. 2010) and Who are today’s political misfits?.
Connemara, by Paul Henry
Another Paul Henry was a contemporary of mine. He slaughtered me at chess in a schools' match when he represented St Malachy's Grammar School, Belfast. Within a few years he became Irish Chess Champion (1970). Paul took two degrees in maths at Cambridge but then changed career and is today a medical doctor, living outside Belfast. I met Paul once again when he turned up with his son to attend one of our C.S. Lewis tours in 1998. [See Paul Henry (June 1996) on the Irish Chess Union site.]
ä ö ü Ä Ë Ö Ü ß ê î Î â  ă Ă Ş Ţ Ç ş šŠ ţ ç Á É Í Ó Ú á é í ó ú À à è Ő ő ű ñ ï ë Ł ź ¡ ć ï æ û
Αα Ββ Γγ Δδ Εε Ζζ Ηη Θθ Ιι Κκ Λλ Μμ Νν Ξξ Οο Ππ Ρρ Σσς Ττ Υυ Φφ Χχ Ψψ Ωω ᾲ ᾴ ῂ ῄ ὶ ί ῦ ώ ύ
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