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James R Ginther wrote: > > | > > | > | > | > Now there you go, again, thinking Canadians are just echoing our > | > wonderful neighbours to the south. ;-) In fact, a thanksgiving > | > feast was celebrated in Newfoundland about some years before the > | > Mayflower was even a gleam in a shipbuilder's eye (hmm does that > | > analogy really work?). > | > > | Were the celebrants french (possibly Huguenot) or English? > > Tom: > > At the risk of getting into trouble by extending this non-medieval > thread, let me say quickly that those visitors were English (voyage > of the Matthew and all that). BTW, France refused to solve the > huegenot problem by shipping them off to New France, so the > (in)habitants were mainly catholic (practising? hmm don't know -- ask > Dennis). This of course is all contingent on my bad memory about > Canadian history (or should I say Newfoundland history since it > didn't join the Federation until 1947 -- just before the Klingons did > ;-]). > > Now, in order to redeem myself for trangressing the chronological > boundaries of this list, let me point out that the first european > visitors to Newfoundland were in fact the Vikings. They eventually > left, and the remains of a settlement have been discovered > and excavated on the east coast of the Island. > > Cheers > Jim > > ========================================================= > James R. Ginther > Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies > University of Leeds > Leeds LS2 9JT > --------------------------------------------------------- > E-mail: Phone: +44.113.233.6749 > [log in to unmask] Fax: +44.113.233.3654 > -=*=- > http://www.leeds.ac.uk/trs/trs.html > ========================================================= > "Excellencior enim est scriptura in mente viva quam in > pelle mortua" -Robert Grosseteste. You have an intriguing web site, but the `hot links' to course descriptions are all blocked. Is this deliberate? While I have you, as it were, let me apologize for not having replied to your invitation to contribute to the Festschrift for the late Fr Walter Principe. I should have loved to do so, but the invitation came when life was more than usually chaotic, both because of a death in the family and also because of preparations for the 900th anniversary of the foundation of Citeaux. And because I knew, with sinking heart, that I will have no time to prepare anything on the schedule you propose. I apologize for not having written all this to you. The chaos, as I said, was thick and my hopes of convincing myself I could somehow find time high. Chaos is clearing; hopes still dashed. I hope you come up with a great volume, as WHP deserves. Rozanne Elder %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%