christening-ales

Updated: May 8, 2025

The names of many of the domestic festivities of Sweden remind us very much of those of our own old festivities; as church-ales, christening-ales, etc.: thus, barnsöl, the christening-feast; graföl, burial-feast; arföl, the feast given by the heir on descent of property, etc.

Fredrika Bremer - The Home : Or, Life in Sweden