Fiddler's Green

== English == === Alternative forms === Fiddlers' Green, Fidlers' Green === Etymology === From 19th-century English maritime folklore. === Proper noun === Fiddler's Green (nautical, folklore) A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing. (nautical, slang, dated) A place of frolic on shore. (US, military) A stopping place for fallen cavalrymen on the path to the afterlife. 1996, Edward L. Daily, We Remember: U.S. Cavalry Association, Turner Publishing Company, page 7, Fiddler's Green is where a cavalryman meets his comrades who have gone before him, at an old canteen, surrounded by a broad meadow, dotted with trees and crossed by many streams. Here the cavalryman stops, unsaddles his horse, and joins his comrades for a visit with many stories, reminiscences, and camaraderie, before continuing his journey. Soldiers of no other service may stop at Fiddler's Green, they must continue to march. ==== Usage notes ==== In US usage, the term has been associated with the military, in particular the cavalry. The Cavalrymen's Poem (1923) (alternatively titled Fiddler's Green) depicts it as a stopping place (for cavalrymen only) on the road to the afterlife. See Fiddler's Green § In the United States military on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References ===