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The legend of St. Urho originated in Northern Minnesota in the 1950s. However, there are differing opinions as to their origin. Either way, the legend has grown among North Americans of Finnish descent to the point where St. Urho is known and celebrated across the United States and Canada, and even in Finland.
Accordingly to legend, before the last glacial period wild grapes grew with abundance in the area now known as Finland. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of this fact scratched on the thigh bones of giant bears that once roamed northern Europe. The grapes were threatened by a plague of grasshoppers until Urho banished the lot of them by uttering the phrase: "Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka, mene täältä hiiteen" (roughly translated: "Grasshopper, grasshopper, go away!").
St. Urho is nearly always represented with grapes and grasshoppers as part of the picture. His feast is celebrated by wearing the colours Royal Purple and Nile Green.
For more information on this legend and an ode to St Urho?s wife, visit?
http://www.brownielocks.com/urho.html
Accordingly to legend, before the last glacial period wild grapes grew with abundance in the area now known as Finland. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of this fact scratched on the thigh bones of giant bears that once roamed northern Europe. The grapes were threatened by a plague of grasshoppers until Urho banished the lot of them by uttering the phrase: "Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka, mene täältä hiiteen" (roughly translated: "Grasshopper, grasshopper, go away!").
St. Urho is nearly always represented with grapes and grasshoppers as part of the picture. His feast is celebrated by wearing the colours Royal Purple and Nile Green.
For more information on this legend and an ode to St Urho?s wife, visit?
http://www.brownielocks.com/urho.html
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