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Mina-Bealtine to the flowery month. Brand says:
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In honour of May-day, the Goths and Southern Swedes had a mock battle between summer and winter, which ceremony is retained in the Isle of Man, where the Danes and Norwegians had been for a long time masters. This, evidently, is a remnant of an Aryan myth. Olaus Magnus says, the
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Northern natives have a custom to welcome the returning splendour of the sun with dancing, and mutually to feast each other, rejoicing that a better season for feasting and hunting was approached. Tollet quaintly says:
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Better judges may decide that the institution of this festival originated from the Roman Floralia, or from the Celtic La Beltine, while I conceive it derived to us from our Gothic ancestors. The theory of the common Aryan source of these festive rites reconciles Tollet's conception with the decision of the
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for whose opinion he evidently entertains profound respect. The Rev. Mr. Maurice, in his learned work on
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The Antiquities of India, contends that the May-day festivities were originally inaugurated at the vernal equinox, and that they pertained to a