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What (who) is A Birthday Hansel - definition
A Birthday Hansel
A Birthday Hansel, Op. 92, is a song cycle for 'high voice' and harp composed by Benjamin Britten and set to texts by Robert Burns.
Hansel
![Illustration by [[Ludwig Richter]], 1842](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1903 Ludwig Richter.jpg?width=200 "Illustration by [[Ludwig Richter]], 1842")
![Hansel and Gretel meeting the witch, by [[Alexander Zick]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hänsel und Gretel2.jpg?width=200 "Hansel and Gretel meeting the witch, by [[Alexander Zick]].")
![Sculpture of Hansel on the duck by [[Ignatius Taschner]]. ''Märchenbrunnen'', Berlin.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maerchenbrunnen Berlin Friedrichshain 10.jpg?width=200 "Sculpture of Hansel on the duck by [[Ignatius Taschner]]. ''Märchenbrunnen'', Berlin.")
FAIRY TALE COLLECTED BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Hansel & Gretel; Hansel und Gretel; Hansel and gretel; Hansel and gratel; Hänsel and Gretel; Haensel and Gretel; Hänsel und Gretel; Haensel und Gretel; Hansal and Gretal; Hansal and Gretel; Hansel and Gretal; Hanzel ang Gretel; Trail of breadcrumbs; Gretel (Hansel and Gretel); Hansel (Hansel and Gretel); Gingerbread Witch; Hansel
·noun & ·v ·see <a href="">Handsela>.
hansel
FAIRY TALE COLLECTED BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Hansel & Gretel; Hansel und Gretel; Hansel and gretel; Hansel and gratel; Hänsel and Gretel; Haensel and Gretel; Hänsel und Gretel; Haensel und Gretel; Hansal and Gretal; Hansal and Gretel; Hansel and Gretal; Hanzel ang Gretel; Trail of breadcrumbs; Gretel (Hansel and Gretel); Hansel (Hansel and Gretel); Gingerbread Witch; Hansel
['hans(?)l]
(also handsel) archaic or US
¦ noun a gift given at the beginning of the year or the start of an enterprise, supposedly to bring good luck.
¦ verb (hansels, hanselling, hanselled; US hansels, hanseling, hanseled) give a hansel to.
?inaugurate.
Origin
ME (denoting luck): appar. related to OE handselen 'giving into a person's hands', and ON handsal 'giving of the hand to seal a promise', from <a href="">handa> + an element related to <a href="">sella>.
