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What Is a Yule Log, and What Does the Tradition Symbolize?Before that, the Old Norse word “jōl” referred to a 12 ... Scots call Christmas “Yule” today, and it’s part of the holiday vocabulary for Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes (“jul ...
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Norse code: Keeping the flame at the Up Helly Aa festivalRevellers have gathered on Shetland for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event marks the end of the Yule season in Nordic culture, and features “guizers” in Viking costume marching ...
We now associate the word "Yule" with all things Christmas but the word comes from the Old Norse for a feast. Before they became Christians Norse people commemorated the longest night of the year ...
An archeologist and her ex-husband, an expert in ancient Norse languages, are sent to Iceland at Christmastime to search for the legendary treasure of the Yule Lads. When others join in the hunt ...
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