St Martin's Day was an important medieval autumn feast, and the custom of eating goose spread to Sweden from France.
Rian had thought this odd: at previous autumn feasts, Ika had always sat in the centre of the hall, just behind the Trundlemen and their wives.
Aslan then decrees that Rabadash must return to the temple of Tash in Tashbaan and stand before the altar at the time of the autumn feast, when literally thousands of his subjects will be watching.
The autumn feast has provided deer, badgers and grey squirrels with plenty of food, and winter birds should also benefit.
"Thanksgiving to Eru," the autumn feast in Númenor; see the "Description of Númenor" p. 174.
As a matter of fact there was a great autumn feast in the woods that night, and in the halls above.
Similarly, boyar-owned lăieşi were required to gather at their master's household once a year, usually on the autumn feast of Saint Demetrius (presently coinciding with the October 26 celebrations in the Orthodox calendar).
Delaunay wore the deep umber that made him look like an autumn feast, with his russet hair and saffron slashes in his sleeves.
We released each of them back into the rip where they could continue the serious business of being a striper - something that still seemed far more important than the ingredients of a late autumn feast.