Whose birth is celebrated by the annual holiday where Oranjegekte occurs?
Oranjegekte Oranjegekte (Orange craze) or Oranjekoorts (Orange fever) is a phenomenon in the Netherlands that occurs during major sporting events, especially international football championships, and during Koningsdag, an annual holiday celebrating the king's birthday. It manifests itself in the wearing of orange clothing such as T-shirts, caps and scarfs; lavish attention for sports and sports fans in the media; and the decoration of cars, rooms, houses, shops, and even entire streets in orange, the traditional color of the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.
Mōdraniht Mōdraniht (Old English "Night of the Mothers" or "Mothers' Night") was an event held at what is now Christmas Eve by the Anglo-Saxon Pagans when a sacrifice may have been made. The event is attested by the medieval English historian Bede in his 8th-century Latin work "De temporum ratione ". Scholars have proposed connections between the Anglo-Saxon "Mōdraniht " and events attested among other Germanic peoples (specifically those involving the "dísir ", collective female beings, and Yule) and the Germanic Matres and Matronae , female beings attested by way of altar and votive inscriptions, nearly always appearing in trios.