However, the modern version of this Shrovetide dates back to 1898.

Review of Shrovetide 2013- Footage captured for the official players committee.

The air smells of buttered pancakes and vodka, as at Shrovetide.

To pay the judge, they got from each house a Fastnachtshuhn - a Shrovetide chicken.

This is noteworthy because traditionally football had been played in England during Shrovetide.

In England, the season immediately before Lent was called Shrovetide.

"I was to be married at Shrovetide," the man answered, tracing a pattern upon the table with his horny forefinger.

Research into Royal Shrovetide Football's lost history is ongoing.

The wedding took place during the pre-Lenten season of Shrovetide, which was a prohibitive time for marriages.

This is a Shrovetide (Fasching) procession with roughly a hundred years of tradition behind it.

Bassarus is a real Shrovetide play.

In the Erzgebirge the following custom was annually observed at Shrovetide about the beginning of the seventeenth century.

In the finale, Fumito reveals his intention had been to manipulate the Shrovetide.

The scene is the Shrovetide Fair.

A very similar Shrovetide custom is still observed near Schluckenau in Bohemia.

These influences were available to an educated Church Clergy when a ball game was introduced to Shrovetide festivities.

Although subsequently demolished, they have become the goals for the annual Royal Shrovetide Football match.

The ballet is set at the Shrovetide Fair in St Petersburg circa 1830.

Slang for Shrovetide.

It contains many historical buildings and many independent shops, and is famous for its historic annual Shrovetide football match.

Football's roots in England has be found in Medieval football, which was played annually on Shrovetide.

The traditional Shrovetide football match is commonplace in the town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

It was performed at Shrovetide, 22 February 1631, with costumes, sets and stage effects designed by Inigo Jones.

Local Carnival (Shrovetide)

The grassy smell of earth and young leaves made her head ache, like a Shrovetide surfeit of pancakes and vodka.

This period is also known as the pre-Lenten season or Shrovetide.

It marks the beginning of the Pre-Lenten season of the old church calendar.

The wedding took place during the pre-Lenten season of Shrovetide, which was a prohibitive time for marriages.

The weeks of the Pre-Lenten Season break are:

With that begins the Pre-Lenten Season and cultural clubs of the city host carnival dances for all ages.

The earliest the Pre-Lenten season can begin is January 18 and the latest it can end is March 9.

Candide and Martin then have dinner with six foreigners, all of whom are dethroned kings come to celebrate the pre-Lenten season (carnival) in Venice.

The Pre-Lenten Season (see also Septuagesima) is the period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent.

In the Eastern churches of Greek/Byzantine tradition, Zacchaeus Sunday may fall earlier than the Sunday before the Pre-Lenten season.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee commemorates the parable and begins the three-week pre-Lenten Season.

However, in the Tridentine rite, it can fall in the pre-Lenten season if Easter is early enough, and "Alleluia" has to be omitted from this feast's liturgy when that happens.

Before the forty days of Great Lent commence, there is a three-week Pre-Lenten season, to prepare the faithful for the spiritual work they are to accomplish during the Great Fast.

The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee begins the three-week pre-Lenten Season and the first use of the liturgical Triodion (although the week following this Sunday is fast-free).

In the Roman Rite (pre-1970 form), and in similar Anglican and Lutheran uses, a pre-Lenten season lasts from Septuagesima Sunday until Shrove Tuesday and has thus also been known as Shrovetide.

Trinidad and Tobago The common thread is color: flash and dash among the islands' many-splendored species of birds, flowers, butterflies and the fetes that overtake the capital, Port-of-Spain, during the Caribbean's liveliest pre-Lenten season.

Through the same process, the Sunday before Sexagesima Sunday was formerly known as Septuagesima Sunday, and marked the start of the Pre-Lenten Season which eventually became the time for carnival celebrations throughout Europe, this custom being later exported to places settled and/or colonized by Europeans.