Midaëte

Midaëte (Common: Midsummer) is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, celebrated as part of the elven year. It marks the beginning of the sixth savaed in the elven calendar, Feainn.

Traditions
After decorating their houses and lands with birch or oak branches, flower and leaves, especially ferns, people began their celebrations by building a bonfire, singing and feasting. Girls, after rubbing their bodies with adder's-tongue fern's leaves to magically raise their attractiveness, danced naked on the glades wet with dew. Midsummer was the first night during which water was considered free from the forces of evil and darkness and folk willingly bathed, seeking the water's healing properties which were believed to be derived from the Moon. Maidens floated flower wreaths on the surfaces of rivers or lakes. If the wreathes burned or sank, it was said to signify spinsterhood; if they flowed along the river – marriage would come, but late, and if they were caught by a young man, rather more imminently. Lads who managed to catch a wreath sought out the girl who made it. After the pairing, the couples would go into the woods to search for the fern flowers allegedly guarded by evil spirits.

Due to its date, Midsummer is perhaps a part of the Holy Week observations.

One of DLCs contains Summer Shrines connected with Midaëte.

Sommersonnenwende Solstice d'été Solstizio d'estate Midaëte