BONFIRE

[`bɔnˏfaɪə]

костер

bonfire: translation

▪ blazing, roaring

▪ build, have, make

▪ light, start

▪ put out

▪ blaze, burn

Bonfire: translation

Writing in the 1540s, John Leland commented that Lincolnshire people were known to light large fires of bones in the streets; this suggests the word and its etymology as being from 'bone fire' were not particularly familiar. Vikings were said to make the burning of the winter's pile of waste bones a special occasion. That they appear to have accumulated bones is implicit in the circumstances of the death of St Aelfheah (St Alphege), who the *ASC states was taken to a *husting and there pelted with bones and cattle heads. This suggests a large quantity of such things was not out of the ordinary: boned, not stoned, to death.

костёр (часто по случаю какого-л. празднества)

bonfire [ˊbɒnˏfaɪə] n

костёр;