Made a Calennig at a free event
December 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Made a Calennig at a free event
Sending you the best wishes going into 2026!
Here is little mari with a calennig
Here is little mari with a calennig
December 31, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Sending you the best wishes going into 2026!
Here is little mari with a calennig
Here is little mari with a calennig
Step by step process of Mari and Calennig, cos I’m a real hooman and I drew this with mah hands 👀 #marilwyd #welshartist
December 3, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Step by step process of Mari and Calennig, cos I’m a real hooman and I drew this with mah hands 👀 #marilwyd #welshartist
Still seen in some Welsh areas,the collection of calennig (New Year’s gift) where children rise early and carry from door to door, as bearers of good luck, a decorated apple, pierced with three sticks and adorned with a sprig of box and hazelnuts. #Folklore museum.wales/articles/118...
Collecting Calennig - A Welsh New Year Tradition | Museum Wales
Explore the meaning behind Calennig, a well known Welsh New Year tradition, and that New Year's Day was more important than Christmas in Wales at one time
museum.wales
December 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Still seen in some Welsh areas,the collection of calennig (New Year’s gift) where children rise early and carry from door to door, as bearers of good luck, a decorated apple, pierced with three sticks and adorned with a sprig of box and hazelnuts. #Folklore museum.wales/articles/118...
1 Dec: Make your own calennig. A traditional Welsh New Year custom, the calennig is carried from door to door as a bearer of good luck. Calennig means ‘New Year’s gift’ in Welsh, and derives from the Latin calendae, meaning ‘first day of the month’. museum.wales/articles/118...
December 3, 2024 at 6:10 PM
1 Dec: Make your own calennig. A traditional Welsh New Year custom, the calennig is carried from door to door as a bearer of good luck. Calennig means ‘New Year’s gift’ in Welsh, and derives from the Latin calendae, meaning ‘first day of the month’. museum.wales/articles/118...
#NewYearTraditions - Calennig 🍏
🍏Calennig is a Welsh tradition of the giving of gifts and money on New Year's Day and is still practiced in Wales. Children would visit households, carrying an apple skewered with three sticks to form a tripod and embellished with holly, box, hazelnuts and fruit 1/2
🍏Calennig is a Welsh tradition of the giving of gifts and money on New Year's Day and is still practiced in Wales. Children would visit households, carrying an apple skewered with three sticks to form a tripod and embellished with holly, box, hazelnuts and fruit 1/2
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
#NewYearTraditions - Calennig 🍏
🍏Calennig is a Welsh tradition of the giving of gifts and money on New Year's Day and is still practiced in Wales. Children would visit households, carrying an apple skewered with three sticks to form a tripod and embellished with holly, box, hazelnuts and fruit 1/2
🍏Calennig is a Welsh tradition of the giving of gifts and money on New Year's Day and is still practiced in Wales. Children would visit households, carrying an apple skewered with three sticks to form a tripod and embellished with holly, box, hazelnuts and fruit 1/2
The Calennig tradition in Wales involves children going door-to-door on New Year’s Day with decorated apples, singing carols for coins. A blend of holiday cheer and ancient blessings. #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash
Photo: Amgueddfa Cymru
Photo: Amgueddfa Cymru
December 24, 2024 at 1:11 PM
The Calennig tradition in Wales involves children going door-to-door on New Year’s Day with decorated apples, singing carols for coins. A blend of holiday cheer and ancient blessings. #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash
Photo: Amgueddfa Cymru
Photo: Amgueddfa Cymru
These little guys are Calennig :) Apples adorned with sticks, cloves and evergreen branches. Sometimes they have a candle. They’re an old new year thing, I always thought they’d look cute running about on their cute little stick legs 😅
December 3, 2024 at 1:27 PM
These little guys are Calennig :) Apples adorned with sticks, cloves and evergreen branches. Sometimes they have a candle. They’re an old new year thing, I always thought they’d look cute running about on their cute little stick legs 😅
#NewYearsDay 🎆
Hel Calennig 🍎
Hel Calennig was the custom of giving gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather themselves in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
Hel Calennig 🍎
Hel Calennig was the custom of giving gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather themselves in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
January 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
#NewYearsDay 🎆
Hel Calennig 🍎
Hel Calennig was the custom of giving gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather themselves in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
Hel Calennig 🍎
Hel Calennig was the custom of giving gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather themselves in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
2/2 They would sing in verse and wish the householders a happy new year and good luck. In return, the children would receive money or food. In some areas of Wales, it is customary for people to visit all of their family by noon on New Year's Day so they can receive their calennig 🍎
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
2/2 They would sing in verse and wish the householders a happy new year and good luck. In return, the children would receive money or food. In some areas of Wales, it is customary for people to visit all of their family by noon on New Year's Day so they can receive their calennig 🍎
Calennig is one of the most widely recognised New Year traditions in Wales, and yet one of the least commonly practised ✍️ Amelia Jones
Calennig: the Welsh New Year tradition few still celebrate
Amelia Jones Calennig is one of the most widely recognised New Year traditions in Wales, and yet one of the least commonly practised. The custom, where children carry decorated apples fixed on sticks,...
nation.cymru
January 1, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Calennig is one of the most widely recognised New Year traditions in Wales, and yet one of the least commonly practised ✍️ Amelia Jones
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
#NewYearsDay 🎆
Hel Calennig 🍎
It was the custom to give gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
Hel Calennig 🍎
It was the custom to give gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
January 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM
#NewYearsDay 🎆
Hel Calennig 🍎
It was the custom to give gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
Hel Calennig 🍎
It was the custom to give gifts on New Year's Day.
Children would gather in little groups and go from house to house, wishing the occupants a Happy New Year and Good Health.
museum.wales/articles/118...
#Wales #History
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi. Ac i bawb sydd yn y ty. Dyma fy nymuniad i, Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi 🙌🥂
January 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi. Ac i bawb sydd yn y ty. Dyma fy nymuniad i, Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi 🙌🥂
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
A new year tradition in Welsh-speaking Wales #Cymraeg, akin to first footing, was calennig, where people (usually children) went round door-to-door singing a traditional song wishing everyone a good new year, in hopeful return for money.
A new year tradition in Welsh-speaking Wales #Cymraeg, akin to first footing, was calennig, where people (usually children) went round door-to-door singing a traditional song wishing everyone a good new year, in hopeful return for money.
January 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda.
A new year tradition in Welsh-speaking Wales #Cymraeg, akin to first footing, was calennig, where people (usually children) went round door-to-door singing a traditional song wishing everyone a good new year, in hopeful return for money.
A new year tradition in Welsh-speaking Wales #Cymraeg, akin to first footing, was calennig, where people (usually children) went round door-to-door singing a traditional song wishing everyone a good new year, in hopeful return for money.
The custom of calennig dates to the middle ages and is still active in some areas of Wales. Children go from house to house, singing rhymes and wishing a prosperous new year. In exchange they receive money, food or the calennig apple, as pictured.
via The History of Wales
via The History of Wales
January 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The custom of calennig dates to the middle ages and is still active in some areas of Wales. Children go from house to house, singing rhymes and wishing a prosperous new year. In exchange they receive money, food or the calennig apple, as pictured.
via The History of Wales
via The History of Wales
Today's listening whilst I write, thinking of my beloved late brother John and Wales and folk and jazz how music threads through everything we shared. The sublime Calennig - by Angharad Jenkins and Huw Warren (thank you!): youtu.be/VMKPbgEgxQE?...
Enjoy it!
Enjoy it!
Calennig
YouTube video by Angharad Jenkins - Topic
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September 22, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Today's listening whilst I write, thinking of my beloved late brother John and Wales and folk and jazz how music threads through everything we shared. The sublime Calennig - by Angharad Jenkins and Huw Warren (thank you!): youtu.be/VMKPbgEgxQE?...
Enjoy it!
Enjoy it!
Y Fari Lwyd yn ymuno â’r ymgyrch dros ysgol Gymraeg newydd yn ne Caerdydd
Bydd ymgyrchwyr yn canu calennig y tu allan i Neuadd y Sir heddiw (dydd Iau, Ionawr 9), er mwyn parhau i bwyso ar Gyngor Caerdydd
✍️ Efan Owen
Bydd ymgyrchwyr yn canu calennig y tu allan i Neuadd y Sir heddiw (dydd Iau, Ionawr 9), er mwyn parhau i bwyso ar Gyngor Caerdydd
✍️ Efan Owen
Y Fari Lwyd yn ymuno â’r ymgyrch dros ysgol Gymraeg newydd yn ne Caerdydd
Bydd ymgyrchwyr yn canu calennig y tu allan i Neuadd y Sir heddiw (dydd Iau, Ionawr 9), er mwyn parhau i bwyso ar Gyngor Caerdydd
golwg.360.cymru
January 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Y Fari Lwyd yn ymuno â’r ymgyrch dros ysgol Gymraeg newydd yn ne Caerdydd
Bydd ymgyrchwyr yn canu calennig y tu allan i Neuadd y Sir heddiw (dydd Iau, Ionawr 9), er mwyn parhau i bwyso ar Gyngor Caerdydd
✍️ Efan Owen
Bydd ymgyrchwyr yn canu calennig y tu allan i Neuadd y Sir heddiw (dydd Iau, Ionawr 9), er mwyn parhau i bwyso ar Gyngor Caerdydd
✍️ Efan Owen
1st/ 13th January marks the tradition of the Calennig across parts of Wales & the Marches. This saw children touring their neighbours doors to sing & wish prosperity in exchange for gifts like food & coins while carrying a skewered apple/ Perllan🍎. This symbolised good luck. #folklore #witchsky
December 30, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Calennig is one of the most widely recognised New Year traditions in Wales, and yet one of the least commonly practised ✍️Amelia Jones wp.me/p8Mk4U-1bF5
December 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Calennig is one of the most widely recognised New Year traditions in Wales, and yet one of the least commonly practised ✍️Amelia Jones wp.me/p8Mk4U-1bF5
If you have any thoughts or questions on Plygain, calennig, hunting the wren, Mari Lwyd or applied Welsh dialectology, I'm all ears.
I've been commissioned to write short articles on each of these for Welsh learners so they need to be factually pretty bang on
I've been commissioned to write short articles on each of these for Welsh learners so they need to be factually pretty bang on
January 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
If you have any thoughts or questions on Plygain, calennig, hunting the wren, Mari Lwyd or applied Welsh dialectology, I'm all ears.
I've been commissioned to write short articles on each of these for Welsh learners so they need to be factually pretty bang on
I've been commissioned to write short articles on each of these for Welsh learners so they need to be factually pretty bang on
New year's day when I was a little kid meant knocking on neighbours doors and singing a Welsh verse in exchange for a gift. It is known as 'casgu calenning' - collecting a new years' gift.
I remember singing a mangled version of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLu1...
I remember singing a mangled version of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLu1...
Canu Calennig Cwmann 2017
YouTube video by Craffwr
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January 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New year's day when I was a little kid meant knocking on neighbours doors and singing a Welsh verse in exchange for a gift. It is known as 'casgu calenning' - collecting a new years' gift.
I remember singing a mangled version of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLu1...
I remember singing a mangled version of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLu1...
🌟 Calennig! A Welsh tradition of New Year good wishes, small gifts, and community cheer. 🎁✨
Explore the history and heart of this joyful custom 👇
gocybernaut.com/calennig/
#Calennig #NewYearTraditions #Culture
Explore the history and heart of this joyful custom 👇
gocybernaut.com/calennig/
#Calennig #NewYearTraditions #Culture
January 12, 2026 at 1:17 AM
🌟 Calennig! A Welsh tradition of New Year good wishes, small gifts, and community cheer. 🎁✨
Explore the history and heart of this joyful custom 👇
gocybernaut.com/calennig/
#Calennig #NewYearTraditions #Culture
Explore the history and heart of this joyful custom 👇
gocybernaut.com/calennig/
#Calennig #NewYearTraditions #Culture