Talk:Handsel Monday

Hey, guys... Somebody vandalized this with a link to "Salman Khan." Might want to look into it. 68.63.214.250 (talk) 02:06, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Reverted, thanks. Altamel (talk) 22:49, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Article states that the earliest date this can fall is the 4th and yet the 2017 date is a 2nd? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.179.82.20 (talk) 16:01, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

How current/ prevalent is this?

“In Scotland, Handsel Monday or Hansel Monday is the first Monday of the year. Traditionally, gifts (Scots: Hansels) were given at this time. Among the rural population of Scotland, Auld Hansel Monday, is traditionally celebrated on the first Monday after January 12.” I’m a rural Scot, and I have never heard of this, not the “Daft Days”. I realise that it’s a completely unscientific sample, and I might be a minority of one, but there isn’t really much evidence on the internet that it‘s a thing these days either. I could sort of understand that the use of the present tense is some sort of formality of writing in an encyclopædic fashion, or the house stlye for Wikipedia, but that and the table of current and future dates rather imply that what The Scotsman refers to as “Scotland's lost celebration” is still a “going concern”, celebrated widely, and held in some esteem by many people, when it might be better looked at as moribund at best, extinct at worst. Perhaps it gets some regional or local support, which would be interesting to report, but would it be possible to change the tone to being less “this is what Scottish people do”, and more “this is what everyone in Scotland did, but not so much, if at all now”…? Jock123 (talk) 14:57, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

History section is disjointed

This section is very difficult to follow - there seem to be three separate observances plus three possible dates for celebrating the tradition, but all these details are quite scrambled. Our study group has one person who's familiar with some of the concepts, and we are all native English speakers at a university - people who are trying to learn about this from another language/culture background likely can't understand this section as-is. Thx mods :) 2607:F2C0:EC94:38C0:A86B:80DD:6D1C:A436 (talk) 02:46, 24 April 2024 (UTC)