"Good King Wenceslas" is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a Bohemian king going on a journey and braving harsh winter weather to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (December 26, the Second Day of Christmas). During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by following the king's footprints, step for step, through the deep snow. The legend is based on the life of the historical Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia or Svatý Václav in Czech (907–935). The name Wenceslas is a Latinised version of the old Czech language "Venceslav".
Artist | artist | ||
Language | language | ||
English title | english title | ||
A-side | a-side | ||
B-side | b-side | ||
Written | written | ||
Published | published | ||
Released | released | ||
Format | format | ||
Recorded | recorded | ||
Studio | studio | ||
Venue | venue | ||
Genre | genre | ||
Length | length | ||
Label | label | ||
Songwriter | songwriter | ||
Composer | composer | ||
Lyricist | lyricist | ||
Producer | producer |
This page is the FamousFix profile for Good King Wenceslas. Content on this page is contributed by editors who belong to our editorial community. We welcome your contributions... so please create an account if you would like to collaborate with other editor's in helping to shape this website.
On the Good King Wenceslas page you will be able to add and update factual information, post media and connect this topic to other topics on the website. This website does skew towards famous actors, musicians, models and sports stars, however we would like to expand that to include many other interesting topics.