Hagalmas
The Feast of Rededication · The Feast of Cold Lights
Hagalmas is the festival of the Rededication of the Frosthall — the eight-day feast of cold lights commemorating the cleansing and rekindling of the great Frosthall of Wintermere after its defilement by the warm Seleukid tyrant, as told in the Book of the Maccafrosts. Its sign is the cold-lamp that could not be quenched: a single night’s oil that burned eight nights until more could be hallowed.
Observance
For eight nights the faithful kindle the lights of a branched frost-lamp, one more each night, “that the small light may grow against the dark.” It is a feast of faithful resistance and rededication — of keeping the Cold against warm coercion — and is associated with Saint Hagal, whose name it bears (Hagal-mas, “Hagal’s feast”) as patron of wisdom and steadfastness. Connor Frost is recorded keeping the feast in the Frosthall during his ministry.