冰岛人今天在庆祝什么？(What are Icelanders celebrating today?)

在漫长的冬夜之后，不足为奇的是，夏天的第一天是冰岛举行盛大庆祝的原因。公共假日在4月18日之后的第一个星期四，并开启了哈帕（Harpa），这是古挪威历的第一个夏季月份，随后是该国的第一批居民。当时，一年只分为两个季节——夏季和冬季——这就解释了为什么夏季的第一天Sumardagurinn Fyrsti在寒冷的四月。事实上，民间传说，如果你在假期前一天晚上把一盘水放在外面，水结冰了，你就会有一个美好的夏天。不管气温如何，这个节日确实预示着那些以漫长而黑暗少著称的日子的到来，在光线不足的冬季几个月后，这是一种受欢迎的解脱。
原文：
After long – very long – winter nights, it’s not surprising that the First Day of Summer is cause for a big celebration in Iceland. The public holiday falls on the first Thursday after April 18 and launches Harpa, the first summer month of the old Norse calendar that was followed by the country’s first inhabitants. The year was split into just two seasons back then – summer and winter – which explains why Sumardagurinn Fyrsti, the First Day of Summer, falls in chilly April. Indeed, folklore has it that if you put a dish of water outside the night before the holiday and it freezes, you’ll have a good summer. Regardless of temperature, the holiday does herald the arrival of those famously long days with little darkness, a welcome relief after the light-deprived winter months.
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