I love knowing these things that I didn't know ! Thank you ❤ I'm learning just how much bad information is out there about our culture , so sad . Keep doing good work !! ❤
I celebrate Yule since I was a child. My mothers family is Danish and Norwegian, and my Fathers family is Anglo Saxon and Scottish. We always had the Yule Bok on full display, wreaths, tree, and even lit the Yule log when we had a fireplace to do so. There was really no "Christmas Dinner" but we would cook small amounts of our favorite foods and serve them daily like a smorgasbord (I still do this) beginning on Christmas eve and ending 12 days later...smoked salmon, duck, venison, maybe a nice lamb and barley stew, red cabbage, herring...not tons of food, but tastes of everything we like. No alcohol per-se, but food and fun and stories.
One funny practice that I keep every year is to string my recurve bow and use it to shoot through every fall pumpkin left in the home, no matter how small (I do this on a range, of course). I cannot stop loosing arrows until every pumpkin is pierced. The pumpkins are then left as offerings in a nearby marsh. During that time, I do not carry a gun. Instead I keep an impact weapon, a blade, or a bow. This way I am encouraged to keep proficiency with ancestral weapons. I feel that the archery in particular has a special resonance with the Wild Hunt.
I discovered my Norse ancestry about 6 months ago and I still have a lot to learn. But I'm looking forward to celebrating my first Yule. I really lucked out a few days ago when I found a Julnir/Julfather figurine in a thrift store. I enjoyed this video very much, and I wish all fellow heathens a safe and happy Jul! Skol!
Me too. I grew up without religion, but by my early teens I independently celebrated the solstice and equinox. I thought I was all German, but 40 years ago I got a book on Norse mythology and my tree featured upside down Oden gingerbread men lol. I love working wood and blacksmithing and felt like I was ment to build Viking boats. 20 years ago I had my dna tested. I’m mostly Norse! I even have a bit of Irish which I found out was because men picked up Irish women on the way to Iceland.
Definitely celebrating, mainly by myself and new to all of this. Celebrated Mothering Night last night with candles lit in honor of some deceased ancestors plus, there was ham. 😁 Tonight celebrating with alighting a lot of candles plus, a special one and so forth… Thank you for your video, your voice is nice to listen to. Happy Yule!
I loved it despite i'm not a Norwegian,but it's good to see other cultures,me personally i love the history of vikings and i really love your country sir.
I will absolutely celebrate it this way with my viking friends here in Denmark You are telling so well about it. Looking forward to hear more from you.
As someone from a mostly Latin American family, our family celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas starting from Christmas Eve through January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany/Wise Men, with the biggest day of feasting/importance being Christmas Eve and then a "closing of ceremonies " type of celebration on Jan. 6th. The in-between days are about smallsr gatherings with friends and family who couldn't make it to Christmas Eve. When I had my only residence with a working fireplace, my mom and I also added a real Yule log tradition. I celebrate Yule with my pagan friends on/around the actual Winter Solstice with some of the same traditions you listed in your video. As a history lover, I appreciate your video work and want to wish you a Happy Yule.
This is a great video. Three years ago, my husband, son, and I decided we were abandoning the modern consumerist Christmas. We bought some books and did some research. It's been a bit bumpy to get a good grip on exactly what to do. But we've been slowly incorporating things. I like what we've been doing much better. We still exchange gifts, but we don't buy the entire store and have made the celebration about the struggles our ancestors went through. The gifts we give are meaningful and serve a purpose for the upcoming year. I like the idea of making Yule Goats. My son is very creative. Maybe we can make some this year. I remember making ornaments with my grandmother when I was a little girl and loved it. I'm hoping to create life long memories my son will be happy to share and pass down. ❤❤Great video.
I learn something from every video. This time just how close the Christian Christmas is to the true Yule celebrations. I try to celebrate Yule rather than Christmas if I can and have a Nordic theme to my decorations.
We always leave offerings to the landvaettir on Yule eve. The kids especially love participating in this ritual. We observe the coming and going of the icelandic yule lads, via an advent calendar we created where we hang the yule lad of the night as they arrive, talk about their attributes, and remove them when they leave. Greeting the rising of the sun on Yule morning with a Bonfire and hot "beverage", as we bask in the first rays, give toasts, offerings, and song is one of my favorite moments.
Definitely the Yule log, definitely NOT the animal sacrifice. I love this list though, it really helps me with ideas for this year, how I can celebrate, since I'm a solo heathen. Thank you for putting this content out!
I am so happy to live in Finland during Yule. In our language, it's called "Joulu" which is directly related to Yule. It looks a bit different when written, but when pronounced it sounds very similar. Our Santa Claus is called "Joulupukki", which literally means Yule Goat. Even though these days he mostly looks like the modern red Coca Cola version. In my family we have a christmas tree, the ham, christmas fires, and we also visit the graves of passed loved ones. I think that most people here feel that christmas is somehow a christian holiday, even though there is only a very thin layer of christian influence in our modern day celebrations. The actual roots run deep in cultural heritage, and I am so proud we somehow managed to preserve them.
I'm writing a historical fiction novel set in the viking era, this video is perfect timing as Yule is going to be a significant event I will be writing on. Thanks!!!❤
Hi-ya. Nice Video! I would not have known that you are new-ish to You Tube. I appreciate your time to bring us this information. Yule is much more spiritually aligned with what I believe in. Keep going! Where are you in the world?
I am glad that in Scandinavia we still use the pagan name for the holiday, Jul/Jol. This means so much to me because I grew up on Mære, in Trøndelag, Norway. A holy place in pre-Christian times. On top of a hill there was a Norse temple, where the sagas tell of a Julablot in 1021, where Olve, the local powerful farm owner defies the Christian king, by celebrating Jul in the old Norse way. You find the story in St. Olavs Saga. Today, a church from 1150 stands where the temple once stood. But close by is a place where the åsatru community still celebrates Jul in the old way with a blot. The modern julebord-tradition in Norway is a tradition that originates from the old Jolablot-tradition.
Never understood that christmas tree tradition before this video. Now it makes sense. Thanks ! :D Probably some correlation to why most of our barns till recent times was typically painted in red/white too, I guess.
I love everything Viking! I love all your detailed documentation, graphics, sound effects and music! I share your videos to my Facebook, viking groups. Awesome job! 💞❄🎄🎅🏹
Greetings! Thank you for this great video. You do a great job,so welcome to you tube! We practice the old ways,and it is good to see our ways represented here. Blessings upon u, skal! Blessed Yule!
@@NorseReign there are very few left, but we remain. You made me proud. I head off into the mountain alone with renewed spirit, and hopes of the returning light. May Freya bless you 1000 times. Do not be shaken by the weak ,but stand in all the gods gave you. Good journey.
Thank you for your informative post, I am planning a pagan Yule this year. I am going to decorate my tree with natural objects such as cones, dried fruit, cut holly and ivy.
thanks for the helpful and educational video. i like the celebration of yule more than the modern celebration of christmas, which is why we host a winter solstice celebration at our house.
I've been interested in Pagan Yule traditions vs. Christian Christmas traditions for a number of years. Thanks for making this video to deepen my understanding of the season and to inspire my own traditions :) PS - the group Faun has an album called "Pagan" with songs about many of the Pagan holidays - check it out if you want!
Always decorate the evergreens ..have a yule goat and burn the yule log. ...save the leftover for next year....instead of ham I eat either deer..duck wild turkey etc..whatever I got while hunting. SKOL...have a great Yule everyone!
Thanks so much for this informative and concise video. As a pagan, I've been trying to incorporate more Yule traditions into the very long American Christmas season. People put up their 🎄 on November 1st here! I don't have children, so I prefer to wait until mid December to start the Yuletide celebrations!
It seems the word for boar, a pig, and beer, a beverage, across Northern European languages from Frisian, to Saxon, but not Norse, was very similar. I am eating turkey for my longest night.
Really awesome video, cool info. My father's father with his 2 brothers came from Norway, always wanted to visit it when I grew up , but haven't had the chance yet..
This is similar to the Christmas that I remember when I was a child. I have viking ancestry and I think some traditions got passed down. I would love to learn more about it and decorate. We have a fireplace that hasn't been used in twenty years. I love to feel connected to nature. I have been studying yule for a few days. Very interesting, although some of it is darker than I am used to. I'm looking for books to give as gifts.
Can you comment a bit about the 10-20% alcohol? I was under the impression that Ancient and Medieval alcoholic beverages were watered down. Thanks for your help.
Cool cool video because it shows that the Norse culture is alive in everyday life and can be felt and seen. That is as close as you can get to a time machine. I've researched religion very deeply and I can honestly say that the Christian holidays as they are called have much more in common with pagan culture then biblical Christianity. It's fascinating how the pagan culture merged with the Christian culture, or maybe it's the other way around and Christian culture merged with pagan? The celebrations the Norse of 1200 years ago were familiar with would have been different but rooted way way WAY back into the bronze age and beyond.
Happy Yule well in this life im in latinamerica not much norse roots around here but i will celebrated with a good ham and turkey chicken with my mom she dont believe this things but it doesnt matter the gods knows im with their side.Ill drink to Odin and bragi.
Thanks Christopher, this just came on my feed from a year ago! I appreciate you exploring and implementing our pagan/heathen-pre-christian, stolen heritage! Crazy how the algorithm gods aren't distributing certain people!
The problem here is that the only information we have for a Scandinavian Yule festival comes from two 13th century Christian Icelandic writers writing several hundred years after these events would have last taken place (if at all). We do not know where they got their information from, how accurate that information was, or if they interpreted it correctly. They may have simply written a description of pagan rituals from the dark dim past as imagined by a Christian writer - colourful fiction. Also, Yule may simply refer to the mid-winter season rather than a specific festival. The Danes in England used the word to describe the Festival of the Nativity. Yule logs are actually German - the earliest reference to the burning of a log during the Christmas period is from Christian Germany in 1184 from where it spread to neighbouring countries including the northern ones by the 19th century. All the historical evidence points to the origins of the 'Christmas Tree' in 16th century Germany. The English 'Father Christmas' has nothing to do with the Vikings or Odin - the earliest personification of Christmas is in a carol of about 1450 where he is described as 'Sir Christmas'. Other later names include 'Captain Christmas', 'Prince Christmas' and 'The Christmas Lord' and increasingly 'Father Christmas'.
My Grandparents were Lutherans, but also wished us "God Jul", hung a straw Julbak on the tree and served ham for the Christmas Eve feast. I love Jesus and also honor tradition of my Norse ancestors. I think setting Christmas near Solstice meant they were intended to be celebrated rated together, as I have done and will continue to do. I raise my mead horn to all! Merry Christmas and God Jul!
Great video. However, I celebrate Jól inline with the sources. Which note that Jól would take place starting the first full moon after the solstice (January). Either way, have a blessed Jól
Question: Would the persons going about dressed as the Yule Goat be the origins of the Krampus figure, as they seem to at least bear a passing physical resemblance? I can see in the early days of Christianity, the transitional generations, that while the goat [the man in goat skin and mask] would be viewed as benevolent by the Pagans, the Christians would imbue it with a more demonic meaning. Your opinion(s)?
It is called Julebukk today (christmas billy goat)) - and it is like trick or treat, just that you dress in christmas clothes, mostly the kids, and go inside to people you know and laugh and talk and have fun, and get some christmas treats. Thats how I remember it, not many left that still do this old tradition. In the earliest days they used the goat skins and before that it propably started with an annual marking of the new year by butchering and eating a goat. This tradition has had a long history and many changes while society has changed. A lot of other traditions and other stuff is still here but many do not know their norse original meaning and context any longer.
As a Native American during this time of year it is actually supposed to be a very spiritual time of good and evil
I believe it. Dealing with a lot of both right
A lot of similarities between our cultures ⚔️ 🪶🐦⬛🦅🏹
I love knowing these things that I didn't know ! Thank you ❤ I'm learning just how much bad information is out there about our culture , so sad . Keep doing good work !! ❤
@@skyval7926 there is so much rich deep history that is worth learning. There is a lot of ugly… but a lot of really beautiful history.
I celebrate Yule since I was a child. My mothers family is Danish and Norwegian, and my Fathers family is Anglo Saxon and Scottish. We always had the Yule Bok on full display, wreaths, tree, and even lit the Yule log when we had a fireplace to do so. There was really no "Christmas Dinner" but we would cook small amounts of our favorite foods and serve them daily like a smorgasbord (I still do this) beginning on Christmas eve and ending 12 days later...smoked salmon, duck, venison, maybe a nice lamb and barley stew, red cabbage, herring...not tons of food, but tastes of everything we like. No alcohol per-se, but food and fun and stories.
This sounds amazing.
It’s funny as a kid before I became aware of how Yule was celebrated that we were pretty much celebrating Christmas Ike traditional Yule in my family.
Sounds like a great upbringing to me!
Us too!
Us too! ❤
Ditto.
I showed this to my history class in America and we loved it. Thanks for teaching us about Yule.
That’s really cool to hear! I’m glad the class enjoyed it! I wish you all good Yuletide!
Why did it take me 2 years to find this? 😅
I'm from Sweden, currently living in America, and I enjoyed this video. Tack, broder.
One funny practice that I keep every year is to string my recurve bow and use it to shoot through every fall pumpkin left in the home, no matter how small (I do this on a range, of course). I cannot stop loosing arrows until every pumpkin is pierced. The pumpkins are then left as offerings in a nearby marsh. During that time, I do not carry a gun. Instead I keep an impact weapon, a blade, or a bow. This way I am encouraged to keep proficiency with ancestral weapons. I feel that the archery in particular has a special resonance with the Wild Hunt.
That’s really cool. I’ve never heard of anyone else doing that before.
@@rezlogan4787 love it ⚔️
I discovered my Norse ancestry about 6 months ago and I still have a lot to learn. But I'm looking forward to celebrating my first Yule. I really lucked out a few days ago when I found a Julnir/Julfather figurine in a thrift store. I enjoyed this video very much, and I wish all fellow heathens a safe and happy Jul! Skol!
Me too. I grew up without religion, but by my early teens I independently celebrated the solstice and equinox. I thought I was all German, but 40 years ago I got a book on Norse mythology and my tree featured upside down Oden gingerbread men lol. I love working wood and blacksmithing and felt like I was ment to build Viking boats. 20 years ago I had my dna tested. I’m mostly Norse! I even have a bit of Irish which I found out was because men picked up Irish women on the way to Iceland.
I celebrate as a heathen every Xmas!
Definitely celebrating, mainly by myself and new to all of this. Celebrated Mothering Night last night with candles lit in honor of some deceased ancestors plus, there was ham. 😁
Tonight celebrating with alighting a lot of candles plus, a special one and so forth…
Thank you for your video, your voice is nice to listen to. Happy Yule!
Its crazy how the culture is in modern celebrations without most people knowing the origin.
Look at the origins of the names for the day of the week and there is so much more
I loved it despite i'm not a Norwegian,but it's good to see other cultures,me personally i love the history of vikings and i really love your country sir.
I will absolutely celebrate it this way with my viking friends here in Denmark
You are telling so well about it.
Looking forward to hear more from you.
Great Video! Have a Happy Winter Solstice and God Jul!
I am happy I found a new channel focusing on Heathendom❤
Enjoyed it. Always nice to honor our ancestors.
Cen you please made more videos about viking celebrations like Disting Ostara and others
It will be great
Yeah, that's a good idea. I might be doing that for next year!
As someone from a mostly Latin American family, our family celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas starting from Christmas Eve through January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany/Wise Men, with the biggest day of feasting/importance being Christmas Eve and then a "closing of ceremonies " type of celebration on Jan. 6th. The in-between days are about smallsr gatherings with friends and family who couldn't make it to Christmas Eve. When I had my only residence with a working fireplace, my mom and I also added a real Yule log tradition. I celebrate Yule with my pagan friends on/around the actual Winter Solstice with some of the same traditions you listed in your video. As a history lover, I appreciate your video work and want to wish you a Happy Yule.
Thank you for sharing your culture and your music, I for one love it . Your spirit is so amazing.
I am Suebian Saxon. We had similar practices.
This is a great video. Three years ago, my husband, son, and I decided we were abandoning the modern consumerist Christmas. We bought some books and did some research. It's been a bit bumpy to get a good grip on exactly what to do. But we've been slowly incorporating things. I like what we've been doing much better. We still exchange gifts, but we don't buy the entire store and have made the celebration about the struggles our ancestors went through. The gifts we give are meaningful and serve a purpose for the upcoming year.
I like the idea of making Yule Goats. My son is very creative. Maybe we can make some this year. I remember making ornaments with my grandmother when I was a little girl and loved it. I'm hoping to create life long memories my son will be happy to share and pass down. ❤❤Great video.
I learn something from every video. This time just how close the Christian Christmas is to the true Yule celebrations. I try to celebrate Yule rather than Christmas if I can and have a Nordic theme to my decorations.
The Viking game. I’m interested!
I'll make a dedicated about video the game later!
This one, I really liked, being a filthy heathen my self .
Same😊
Cool Yule video. Thanks 😊
We always leave offerings to the landvaettir on Yule eve. The kids especially love participating in this ritual. We observe the coming and going of the icelandic yule lads, via an advent calendar we created where we hang the yule lad of the night as they arrive, talk about their attributes, and remove them when they leave.
Greeting the rising of the sun on Yule morning with a Bonfire and hot "beverage", as we bask in the first rays, give toasts, offerings, and song is one of my favorite moments.
Happy Yule, Jòl Brothers. Hail Odinn The All-father Skøl 💀🍻🎄
I like this guy . I knew a few of these but not all of them. Looking forward to more
Definitely the Yule log, definitely NOT the animal sacrifice. I love this list though, it really helps me with ideas for this year, how I can celebrate, since I'm a solo heathen. Thank you for putting this content out!
they were eaten afterward, so no different than butchering an animal to eat
@@hyperboreanforeskinand your point?
The large ritual following Yule done on the first New Moon after the solstice
Informative and enjoyable as always. Happy Yule to you Christopher!
Thanks Doomfruit! God jul to you too!
Glad I came across this channel.
Thank you for this video it is the best source of informations what i found about Yule and it is very qualite video
Thank you kindly!
Thanks!
I am so happy to live in Finland during Yule. In our language, it's called "Joulu" which is directly related to Yule. It looks a bit different when written, but when pronounced it sounds very similar. Our Santa Claus is called "Joulupukki", which literally means Yule Goat. Even though these days he mostly looks like the modern red Coca Cola version. In my family we have a christmas tree, the ham, christmas fires, and we also visit the graves of passed loved ones. I think that most people here feel that christmas is somehow a christian holiday, even though there is only a very thin layer of christian influence in our modern day celebrations. The actual roots run deep in cultural heritage, and I am so proud we somehow managed to preserve them.
I stumbled on your channel and beginning with the next Yule I plan to make my own Norse based yuletide celebrations. Thank you for this video.
I'm writing a historical fiction novel set in the viking era, this video is perfect timing as Yule is going to be a significant event I will be writing on. Thanks!!!❤
That’s awesome! Yeah, Yule was the most significant holiday during the Viking Age imo.
I really hate Christmas but I really loved this episode. Good job handsome :)
Thanks Anna! Maybe Yule would be a better fit for you? :)
@@NorseReign dragging big trunks from nature, setting it on fire and never letting it it die? Sounds a like the army.... So... No! Haha
@@AValkyria 😆
Hi-ya. Nice Video! I would not have known that you are new-ish to You Tube. I appreciate your time to bring us this information. Yule is much more spiritually aligned with what I believe in. Keep going! Where are you in the world?
Thanks for the support David! I’m based in Norway!
I am glad that in Scandinavia we still use the pagan name for the holiday, Jul/Jol. This means so much to me because I grew up on Mære, in Trøndelag, Norway. A holy place in pre-Christian times. On top of a hill there was a Norse temple, where the sagas tell of a Julablot in 1021, where Olve, the local powerful farm owner defies the Christian king, by celebrating Jul in the old Norse way. You find the story in St. Olavs Saga.
Today, a church from 1150 stands where the temple once stood. But close by is a place where the åsatru community still celebrates Jul in the old way with a blot. The modern julebord-tradition in Norway is a tradition that originates from the old Jolablot-tradition.
Never understood that christmas tree tradition before this video. Now it makes sense. Thanks ! :D Probably some correlation to why most of our barns till recent times was typically painted in red/white too, I guess.
I’ve always heard that traditional Yule was on the first Full Moon after the Winter Solstice.
I love everything Viking! I love all your detailed documentation, graphics, sound effects and music! I share your videos to my Facebook, viking groups. Awesome job! 💞❄🎄🎅🏹
Anita, thanks for the support! I really appreciate that! Thank you so very much!
@@NorseReign keep up the great work! It's appreciated and loved 💞🙏
@@NorseReign are you going to post a Winter Solstice one?
@@AFaragher I'm not making one specifically about Winter Solstice this year, but I will probably do one next year.
Love Yule ❣️
All swedish holidays are still to this day celebrated for 3 days.
Watching from the Faroe Islands
Have a cool Yule! ❤
I have Yule goats on my Yule tree. Yule blessings my brother❤
Greetings! Thank you for this great video. You do a great job,so welcome to you tube!
We practice the old ways,and it is good to see our ways represented here. Blessings upon u, skal! Blessed Yule!
Thanks for the support and happy to hear that the old ways ares till being practiced! Happy Winter Solstice!
@@NorseReign there are very few left, but we remain. You made me proud. I head off into the mountain alone with renewed spirit, and hopes of the returning light. May Freya bless you 1000 times. Do not be shaken by the weak ,but stand in all the gods gave you. Good journey.
Hello from Canada, My father, Hjalmar, was Norwegian. seasons greetings C J Myren
I made my Norman Viking candles out of lard for Xmas, and I’m sending him home w the makings to do it w his son. I’m so excited! Merry Christmas.
We are going to light fire lanterns and write our intentions for the new year. Thank you for this awesome content!
Thank you for your informative post, I am planning a pagan Yule this year. I am going to decorate my tree with natural objects such as cones, dried fruit, cut holly and ivy.
First I have seen of your videos but look forward to seeing many more
Awesome video, thank you , will share this with my niece who is learning our religion.
I love your channel. Have a happy yule, blessed be..
Thanks for sharing.
Good video! Along with some of what you covered we also had our kids "earn" gifts by saying times tables or something small like that.
thanks for the helpful and educational video. i like the celebration of yule more than the modern celebration of christmas, which is why we host a winter solstice celebration at our house.
Skol from Maryland, USA good luck with the channel
I have an old LP record, with old world Christmas. It has one of the later depictions of Oden shown in this film.
Great information here. Thank you
Thanks good video.
I've been interested in Pagan Yule traditions vs. Christian Christmas traditions for a number of years. Thanks for making this video to deepen my understanding of the season and to inspire my own traditions :) PS - the group Faun has an album called "Pagan" with songs about many of the Pagan holidays - check it out if you want!
thank you
YES...we plan to celebrate in the way of my heathen ancestors. Great Video...I liked and subscribed!! So excited to look more into your channel!! SKOL
Just new here. Great video! Much love from Scotland
Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺
Always decorate the evergreens ..have a yule goat and burn the yule log. ...save the leftover for next year....instead of ham I eat either deer..duck wild turkey etc..whatever I got while hunting. SKOL...have a great Yule everyone!
Thank you for sharing! So interesting to learn more about the history!
Just found your channel. Pretty interesting stuff. Keep it going
Comment for the algorithm 🌲
Nice video, we have in my family the tradition of Brageskål. Where we proclaim something we will accomplish in the year to come 😁
Good tradition!
Thanks so much for this informative and concise video. As a pagan, I've been trying to incorporate more Yule traditions into the very long American Christmas season. People put up their 🎄 on November 1st here! I don't have children, so I prefer to wait until mid December to start the Yuletide celebrations!
It seems the word for boar, a pig, and beer, a beverage, across Northern European languages from Frisian, to Saxon, but not Norse, was very similar. I am eating turkey for my longest night.
new fav yule vid
Really awesome video, cool info. My father's father with his 2 brothers came from Norway, always wanted to visit it when I grew up , but haven't had the chance yet..
This is similar to the Christmas that I remember when I was a child. I have viking ancestry and I think some traditions got passed down. I would love to learn more about it and decorate. We have a fireplace that hasn't been used in twenty years. I love to feel connected to nature. I have been studying yule for a few days. Very interesting, although some of it is darker than I am used to. I'm looking for books to give as gifts.
Fascinating. I might do a story blog set in my fictional shapeshifter world which includes Vikings, of course. Smiles!
Your videos are great!
Love ❤
Lovely - Merry Christmas
I celebrate like a heathen every year. 💜✨💜
Enjoyed it
Can you comment a bit about the 10-20% alcohol? I was under the impression that Ancient and Medieval alcoholic beverages were watered down. Thanks for your help.
I have recently realized I am a pagan whereas before I thought I was an atheist who loved nature. Thanks for opening doors for me.
Outstanding info! This video provided so much information that I have been searching for, in a very direct and concise manner. Thank you!
great video ! loads of research went into this !outstanding !!
Cool cool video because it shows that the Norse culture is alive in everyday life and can be felt and seen. That is as close as you can get to a time machine. I've researched religion very deeply and I can honestly say that the Christian holidays as they are called have much more in common with pagan culture then biblical Christianity. It's fascinating how the pagan culture merged with the Christian culture, or maybe it's the other way around and Christian culture merged with pagan? The celebrations the Norse of 1200 years ago were familiar with would have been different but rooted way way WAY back into the bronze age and beyond.
Glad Jul brother!
I love your content
Very cool 😎
Happy Yule well in this life im in latinamerica not much norse roots around here but i will celebrated with a good ham and turkey chicken with my mom she dont believe this things but it doesnt matter the gods knows im with their side.Ill drink to Odin and bragi.
Have a blessed Yule!
Love this❤
Great video!!
Liked and subscribed.
Thanks Christopher, this just came on my feed from a year ago! I appreciate you exploring and implementing our pagan/heathen-pre-christian, stolen heritage! Crazy how the algorithm gods aren't distributing certain people!
The problem here is that the only information we have for a Scandinavian Yule festival comes from two 13th century Christian Icelandic writers writing several hundred years after these events would have last taken place (if at all). We do not know where they got their information from, how accurate that information was, or if they interpreted it correctly. They may have simply written a description of pagan rituals from the dark dim past as imagined by a Christian writer - colourful fiction. Also, Yule may simply refer to the mid-winter season rather than a specific festival. The Danes in England used the word to describe the Festival of the Nativity.
Yule logs are actually German - the earliest reference to the burning of a log during the Christmas period is from Christian Germany in 1184 from where it spread to neighbouring countries including the northern ones by the 19th century.
All the historical evidence points to the origins of the 'Christmas Tree' in 16th century Germany.
The English 'Father Christmas' has nothing to do with the Vikings or Odin - the earliest personification of Christmas is in a carol of about 1450 where he is described as 'Sir Christmas'. Other later names include 'Captain Christmas', 'Prince Christmas' and 'The Christmas Lord' and increasingly 'Father Christmas'.
My Grandparents were Lutherans, but also wished us "God Jul", hung a straw Julbak on the tree and served ham for the Christmas Eve feast. I love Jesus and also honor tradition of my Norse ancestors. I think setting Christmas near Solstice meant they were intended to be celebrated rated together, as I have done and will continue to do. I raise my mead horn to all! Merry Christmas and God Jul!
Great video. However, I celebrate Jól inline with the sources. Which note that Jól would take place starting the first full moon after the solstice (January). Either way, have a blessed Jól
I dont dress up as a goat, but I will make some Yule log cake this year! 🤭
Sounds delish! The cake is indeed based on the yule log tradition of the Vikings.
Was either that or getting an axe and chomping up a tree 🌳 but im more skilled in the kitchen!
Question:
Would the persons going about dressed as the Yule Goat be the origins of the Krampus figure, as they seem to at least bear a passing physical resemblance?
I can see in the early days of Christianity, the transitional generations, that while the goat [the man in goat skin and mask] would be viewed as benevolent by the Pagans, the Christians would imbue it with a more demonic meaning.
Your opinion(s)?
It is called Julebukk today (christmas billy goat)) - and it is like trick or treat, just that you dress in christmas clothes, mostly the kids, and go inside to people you know and laugh and talk and have fun, and get some christmas treats. Thats how I remember it, not many left that still do this old tradition. In the earliest days they used the goat skins and before that it propably started with an annual marking of the new year by butchering and eating a goat. This tradition has had a long history and many changes while society has changed. A lot of other traditions and other stuff is still here but many do not know their norse original meaning and context any longer.
Best Doctor I ever worked with was a Dr Yuille. Scottish ❤ Norse origins