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Fiddler's Green is the afterlife imagined by sailors, and later adopted by U.S. Cavalry, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. There is some evidence to support that the major propagators of this belief were pirates who, knowing they would never meet the criteria for entry into Christian heaven, simply created a religion of their own. Fiddlers Green may be: Fiddlers Green, a fictional place Fiddlers Green, a German band playing Irish independent speedfolk music A place in George A. Romeros 2005 film Land of the Dead Fiddlers Green is a fictional character from Neil Gaimans series The Sandman. ...
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History
Fiddler's Green features in an old Irish legend that a sailor can find the paradisaical village by walking inland with an oar over his shoulder until he finds a place where people ask him what he's carrying. This legend may have some of its origin in Tiresias' prophecy in Homer's Odyssey, in which he tells Odysseus that the only way to appease the sea god Poseidon and find happiness is to take an oar and walk until he finds a land where he is asked what he is carrying, and there make his sacrifice. Everes redirects here. ...
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U.S. cavalry had a story of Fiddler's Green published anonymously in a 1923 U.S. Cavalry Manual, and is still used in modern cavalry units to memorialize the deceased. The name has also had other military uses. Fiddler’s Green was the name of an artillery Fire Support Base in Military Region III in Vietnam in 1972 occupied principally by elements of 2nd Sqdn., 11th Armored Cavalry, and the name of the Navy's enlisted mens club in Sasebo, Japan in the early 1960s. Illuminated by the Albuquerque Bridge, Japanese volunteers place candle lit lanterns into the Sasebo River during the Obon festival. ...
A song based on Fiddler's Green was written and is copyrighted by John Connolly, a Lincolnshire songwriter in England Copyright 1970 for the World, March Music Ltd SOF, and has since passed into tradition and is sung worldwide in nautical and Irish traditional circles. Fiddler's Green is also a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, released in 1991. The song describes the aftermath of a young man's death at sea. For other places with the same name, see Lincolnshire (disambiguation). ...
The Tragically Hip is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie (lead vocals and occasional acoustic guitar), Paul Langlois (guitar), Rob Baker (guitar), Gord Sinclair (bass) and Johnny Fay (drums). ...
References - Page, Michael; Robert Ingpen (1985). Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were. Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-81607-8.
- Fiddlers green - World Wide Words
Viking Press was founded on March 1, 1925, in New York City, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. ...
See also Big Rock Candy Mountain is a song about a hobos idea of paradise - a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne. ...
Pieter Bruegel the Elders „Das Schlaraffenland“ (The Land of Cockaigne), painted in 1567. ...
The Order of the Spur is a Cavalry tradition in the United States Army. ...
Paradise, Jan Bruegel Paradise is an English word from Persian roots that is generally identified with the Garden of Eden or with Heaven. ...
TÃr na nÓg, called in English the Land of Eternal Youth or the Land of the Ever-Young, was the most popular of the Otherworlds in Irish mythology, perhaps best known from the myth of OisÃn and Niamh of the Golden Hair. ...
A Valkyrie is waiting at the gates of Valhalla on the Tjängvide image stone from Gotland, in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. ...
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