Cockaigne or Cockayne is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist.
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Writing about Cockaigne was a commonplace of Goliard verse. It represented both wish fulfillment and resentment at the strictures of asceticism and death.
While the first recorded uses of the word are the Latin Cucaniensis , and the Middle English Cokaygne , one line of reasoning has the name tracing to Middle French pays de cocaigne " land of plenty", [2] ultimately adapted or derived from a word for a small sweet cake sold to children at a fair OED.
In Ireland it was mentioned in the Kildare Poems composed c.
In Italian , the same place is called Paese della Cuccagna ; the Flemish-Belgian equivalent is Luilekkerland "relaxed luscious, delicious land" , translated from the Middle-Belgian word Cockaengen , and the German equivalent is Schlaraffenland. From Swedish dialect lubber "fat lazy fellow" comes Lubberland , [3] popularized in the ballad An Invitation to Lubberland. In the s, the name Cockaigne came to be applied jocularly to London [4] as the land of Cockneys "Cockney" from a "cock's egg", an implausible creature; see also basilisk , though the two are not linguistically connected otherwise.
The Dutch villages of Kockengen and Koekange were named after Cockaigne. The surname Cockayne also derives from the mythical land, and was originally a nickname for an idle dreamer. Like Atlantis and El Dorado , the land of Cockaigne was a utopia. It was a fictional place where, in a parody of paradise, idleness and gluttony were the principal occupations. In Specimens of Early English Poets , George Ellis printed a 13th-century French poem called "The Land of Cockaigne" where "the houses were made of barley sugar and cakes, the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing" [6].
According to Herman Pleij , Dreaming of Cockaigne: She turns out to be a fairy who now wants to thank him: He receives a magic button with which he can ask for any food he wants.
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Soon the inhabitants of the little kingdom are living in a wonderland. From the village fountain now gushes wine and lemonade, the fountain itself is made of marzipan and the fences are made of chocolate. To avoid jeopardizing the splendor, a rice pudding mountain is built around the kingdom. But soon people, especially children, realize there are disadvantages.
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All the people are fat and the school is closed due to "laziness". They ask the princess for help, as she is the only person who has avoided eating too much.
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