ACHTUNG! ATTENTION! 🤣 And any other language! It seems youtube has started a new thing where they use AI to dub videos in different countries. THIS WAS NOT ME WHO SET IT UP AND I DO NOT ENCOURAGE IT! You will loose alot in the translations from the original sources if you watch the AI dubbed versions. You should be able to change the settings and watch it in the original. i will see if there is anything that can be done to remove this in future videos.
Ok I will be watching and listening to what you get to say but please explain you and your in Russian Slavic languages is the same tree and is the same Festival. And it goes together with Christmas
Welcome back brother it's great to see you again and I'm glad to see your in great health ty for continuing your amazing videos and I hope as always life is treating you very well my friend 😎 ✌️❤
I can attest growing up in the 70's in England that we referred to Christmas as Yule in our household. We also made Yule Log Cakes and preserved traditions of leaving Cake and Whisky offerings out for Santa, which are rituals far older than Modern Xmas. These were long held echoes from our Saxon and Viking past. The offerings were from ancient tradition of gifts to Woden, later transferred to the figure of Santa Claus who also flew through the sky with a sled and Reindeer, rather than an 8 legged horse.
@@henchy3rd It's actually far deeper than that ... and the name Santa has little to do with Northern Pagan tradition. It draws from the Christian Mysticism end of the spectrum but goes way above the heads of any secular discussion found here. As usual, it was tacked on to a great many things ... The Sanctus or Sacred Claustrum = Saint or Sacred hence Santa Claus. It is all to do with Xtian Mysticism not taught to secular Society or the profane. The exoteric take stories for myths and literal tales .... the esoteric understand the deeper meaning. For Northern Pagans it is sufficient to accept the doubling of the figure of Woden or Odin.
The Sami stuff would be interesting. That could explain about the tree, the fly agaric mushrooms, the raindeer, and other stuff maybe relating to shamanic practice.
Never understood why there is such little mention of the german sources and the concentration on Norse Yule, we have recorded month names for the original germanic months dated to the 7th century recorded by Charlemagne that pre-dated mass christian conversion. In that time, our December was marked as Hailagmanod or Holy Month, and the modern german word for Christmas Weihnachten, or consecrated nights takes its origin from Hailagnachten or Holy Nights celebrated by the germanic tribes around the 12 days between the solstice and the new year otherwise known as the rough nights, rouchnächten. These month names were still used until the 19th century in the rural areas of Germany.
Thank you for sharing, specially that map in the beginning, it really clears out some ancestral questions for me. I was born in Eastern Europe, Romania, and I had 2 Hungarian grandmas, 1 Romanian grandpa, and one German grandpa, all born in Romania, so there’s lots of Germanic people in Romania, so now it makes sense how they get there and when. And that just makes even more sense for our family name. Thanks again
True! And a good teacher, atleast for me. Not too long super intricate videos, onpoint, sources, conveyed with his own thoughts and visual affections about the subjects. Makes it harder to misunderstand something, and easier to conceive det frame of mind and reasoning etc. behind it. That usually comes from a point-of-view that is of selfinterest/passion/practicing. Gode vinternetter! =)
Brother, nice page! I was buying stuff from Grimfrost but now I will buy from you too! I value your work and info very much, skål fra Danmark! ( by the way I though Jul was related to Wheel, like the full circle of the year)
Merry yule man thanks for your videos. When my bitcoin stuff works out, you're the man I think deserves any loot from the tube. I've learned much from you. I'm part native American. So I wanted to learn about the ancestry of all my ppl. I guess that kinda explains me. I find you to be intelligent and a good person. Atlest what you show of yourself has been inspiring.
Interesting to hear of your position of Yul being Wolf's Moon and the 'no fighting or warring.' I understand this as being originally tied into Battle of Bråvalla 17th Jan 758AD by decree of King Sigurd Hring. The original writings having been in the Personal Royal Library fire of 1697 which destroyed much of Sweden's little known and guarded history with no backups which why so little is known of King Hring and that era. I understand that King Hring detested warring and corruption of his uncle Wartooth much preferring trade commerce such he established Birka in 751 with a stable defined tax on goods. By winter solstice 757 much of the armies had been gathered at Kolmården Forest edge the Bråvalla Plains, and Bråviken shore. The battle seven years in the making was to happen 3rd week of Spring but moved up due to Wartooth declining health and determined to die in battle. When the battle ended Hring declared the time of Yul during Wartooth's funeral pyer the day following the battle which plays to your three day Yule along with three days of Wolf's moon.
I'm sure many European peoples at different times had celebrations for the returning of the sun with different names. If the days are getting shorter and you're rationing your winter food supplies it's going to be a relief to know the days are lengthening. Then it's only natural to break into your food store to have a bit of a blow out and celebrate, giving a bit of fun in the cold and dark. I don't know about calculations based on the moon, I'm sure some ethnicities had different associations and legends with the time of year. When you are calculating the shortest day with shadows and the position of the rising sun in practice it's going to be a few days after the solstice to be sure that the days are getting longer. For instance 25th December.
Good morning just came across your channel. Very interesting. I am part nor actually I’m mixed with a little bit of everything but I am a new subscriber thank you❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am a catechumen of the Orthodox Church, but I respect your academic and attestable approach to the subject matter. If you want to know about paganism, go to the pagans. The intellectually honest, intelligent ones at least lol. Much respect.
The reason for the 25th December being selected as that of the birth of Christ was more to do with the worship of Sol Invictus - which coincidentally had its major feast day on 25th December. Around the same time as this was Saturnalia, but Sol Invictus was extremely popular around the time that Christianity was gaining in popularity and in the waning days of the empire. Equally, Saturnalia, Solstice and other festivals happening around a similar time would also add to the reason why 25/12 was picked. I wonder whether or not the more eastern (old) calendar date is what’s being referred to by Haakon? Orthodox Christianity follows the Julian calendar, so I suspect that Christmas is celebrated much later than ours is, as we switched to the Gregorian calendar at some point. So I wonder, if the calendar was Julian at the time, Christmas being later was possibly closer to Yule, at the first new moon in January? Especially if the actual date of 25/12 isn’t mentioned (but I absolutely bow to your far superior knowledge on this). Just that the two different calendars, juxtaposed with orthodox Christianity celebrating it later could be part of the background to this? And thus, as we in the west follow the Gregorian, the assumption of many would be that Yule is in December? Also God Jul!
The Julian Calendar had standardised the solstices and equinoxes to the 25th of the month in question. So in 45 BCE they were on the 25th, but the calendar wasn’t exact enough so there was drift of the calendar so the solstice was no longer on the 25th as a solar phenomenon but was still celebrated on the 25th.
danke for all the amazing work you put into videos that help me to inner stand our past. Our forefathers will travel within us to eternity ,the good things. travel well friend
Christians used the Julian calender back then. December roughly corresponded with current January today. After the switch to the Gregorian calendar Christmas was shifted to December whereas the Orthodox continues to use January. Can that be a connection with ɠ̊eol as you mentioned being in January (because the full moon new moon thing)?
Pretty sure it was a decree by a king in the 900s to shift it closer to yule for whatever reason. Dont think it had anything to do with the calendar changes
He says: God jul, og vi ses neste gang. (the D in god is normally silent, like here) Direct translation: (Have a) Good yule, and we'll see eachother next time. Hope that helps 🙂
Great video! While the basis of the Norse sagas are grounded in pre-Christian traditions, it’s important to recognize that they were heavily influenced by Christianity during their writing. We must be cautious when distinguishing between authentic pagan elements and those shaped by Christian morality and symbolism. Additionally, alternative research, including findings from archaeologists in China, suggests intriguing links between pre-Christian Northern European culture and Taoist practices, offering a new perspective on the spiritual connections across Eurasia.
Could you do a longer talk about the prim staffs only? I guess you have taken some info into the year calender you made, whi ch I BOUGHT - but would love to have explained the original symbols :D
I have recently seen a lot of videos on Yule. Those videos point to Saturnia, I hope that's right. So is Halloween , Mabon. Maybe it was for The Romans and Celtic tribes,.I would think they celebrated other gods , not just Saturn. I also understood winter began on Nov 1st. The solstice would be mid way between the beginning of winter and the beginning of spring in February. Am I understanding this correctly? Yule actually occured in January as well, not on the solstice or even a few days later,on the 25th? Thank you for helping me to understand Yule better..
Look here i am with a phone and a watch and a calender on the wall and i cannot keep up with what day week or month it is so how on earth did they do it all those years ago???
is there any source or example what the people wear after the viking age ? like in mediaval age . they still had their traditiobal clothing ? they get plate armor ? they still had their traditional decorations like runes , knotworks , or everybody just converted to the basic european christian style ? . i cant find anything most videos and sources focused only on the viking age .
Great video! How is the pagan baptism spelled? You enunciate it as "vac knee oowsen". Please let me know what word this is. Am interested to study this more
Gledelig Jul - uansett feiret dato 😉 Vi skryter alltid av forfedrene; Engebret, Knut, Haakon, Frik ❤ Flott genser, min får mange kommentarer på jobben.
Júl tide greetings to you sir from WA. So, I am curious or confused...... or both. LOL. So where did the tradition of celebrations for 12 days come into this? Is that solstice celebrations? Thanks buddy!
Hi, are you using AI for this video? Is the original available, please? I was looking for listening to your voice but this is... Ick😝 Greetings from Germany 😘
I’d can’t confirm but I heard the christmas tree was tied to Martin Luther. But the hanging of evergreens (wreaths, mistle toes, and trees?) are an ancient roman tradition (possibly other cultures as well) that predates christianity
Also Germanic & northern European in general. Christians used, in many areas, plants or natural familiar things which held pagan meaning to facilitate conversion, using relatable items & claiming their own use was the "truth." It had proven effective... & Still many insist the tree is Christian. There are no fir trees in the Middle East.
@ or was it a germanic tradition that the germanic population chose to christianize. I would argue it was both. These traditions became germanic traditions as opposed to pagan in this way. With pagan roots, or course
I heard you mention "Pagans did celebrate Jesus birth on Solstice, not 25 December like we do today", that's just wrong for a simple reason: by those ages, 24-25 December was actually Solstice. You can see evidence in the Roman Calendar with 24 June being "Dies Lampadarum" or Day of Janus (Saint John), Summer Solstice. 25 December also being for Roman "Sol Invictus", although March Equinox being a more important day in roman paganism, you can find 25 March being Attideia Hilaria (Attis Resurrection)
I attended an annual Halloween event called Dead Ball. A group wore Viking costumes. Do you consider that appropriation? I have been curious since reading about some White Nationalists in the USA associate themselves with Viking culture.
Question - You use the term pagan. Its definition is “outside the main accepted/authorized religion(s). Do you hold the connotation that , for example that in this Yule discourse that pagan simply means pre or beginning of the Christian era in the Germanic/Norse tribes? As a historian of religion, I personally do not use the word pagan when discussing the spread of any of the Abrahamic faiths who use the term to promote the agenda that monotheism is more rational (blame the Greek philosophers for changing polytheism to monotheism under the Eastern Roman Empire) and more powerful so it is evil or wrong to have more than one god. (I won’t delve into to how my issues that the Western Catholic/Protestant view that the Trinity is monotheism…. ) go into my explaining why Christian & Muslim agendas may present it as “evil” to gain authority. I chose to use polytheistic. I view “pagan” as a pejorative term mostly based on what you seem to see as the same issue - new or self-created religious practices; I’m definitely calling out Wicca. Wicca or Neo-paganism is a late 19th-early 20th century C.E. creation mostly based around n the Gothic revival of late Victorian era/Alister Crowley influence. I am also curious if you see a merging of Irish/Brythonic (Scottish/C’mry or Welsh) polytheistic beliefs/magic/ritual with Norse traditions since certainly Dublin and the Scottish Northern Isles had trade routes well established not simply raids and cultures were being shared along with settlement. If pagan is your choice, I respect that. I will often start a course or section with a “working definition” that combines what research has linked together. Thank you for posting these sources and your explanations. I will be recommending your site for source sagas as I expect that spring and summer rites/ritual will be up for students looking for good resources on the Germanic/Norse mythology, etc.. Glaðligr Jól (from the States)
It is said that St. Boniface was the inspiration for the evergreen Christmas tree. He used it to help describe specific Christian concepts. It was used after he supposedly defeated the power of Thor over the Nordic pagans and when they saw this great feat they enmass converted to Christianity. So the legend goes.
He used evergreen bc that was a familiar thing to the pagans. I can't cite them bc I don't remember but use of evergreen predates him, & is recorded somewhere. I have to be up for work early... I know it is searchable so I'm saying this much at least.
Merry Christmas Michael.....uh, er.... Skol, and hails Allfoth my brother Thor!!! May your hearth stay hot and bright during this Yule and keep the harsh winter landvettir from your door 🥸🤓🥸🤓🥸🤓Praise the Herran, praise the Herran 🙌🙌
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ACHTUNG! ATTENTION! 🤣 And any other language! It seems youtube has started a new thing where they use AI to dub videos in different countries. THIS WAS NOT ME WHO SET IT UP AND I DO NOT ENCOURAGE IT! You will loose alot in the translations from the original sources if you watch the AI dubbed versions. You should be able to change the settings and watch it in the original. i will see if there is anything that can be done to remove this in future videos.
Ok I will be watching and listening to what you get to say but please explain you and your in Russian Slavic languages is the same tree and is the same Festival. And it goes together with Christmas
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Ya, I was going to mention the "Swahili for French Canadian speakers" was missing a few things in the translation! 😝😝😝
Is fear fíor mé. Fear págánach. O Fearghail. Justus Gaeilge 💯✍
Altid Bestige. Let AI figure on that for a while. 🤣
So this is not you and you didn't make this clip????
Yule is my favorite due to the peaceful prospect. A tine for peace snd making gifts. Its wholesome.
Happy Yule and may your wishes be granted for the new year. And a good health to you.
@@flemishlion69 detsamma
And a happy Silvester to you too, may the new year bring you fortune.
Detsamma, the same to you
detsamma
Welcome back brother it's great to see you again and I'm glad to see your in great health ty for continuing your amazing videos and I hope as always life is treating you very well my friend 😎 ✌️❤
I can attest growing up in the 70's in England that we referred to Christmas as Yule in our household. We also made Yule Log Cakes and preserved traditions of leaving Cake and Whisky offerings out for Santa, which are rituals far older than Modern Xmas. These were long held echoes from our Saxon and Viking past. The offerings were from ancient tradition of gifts to Woden, later transferred to the figure of Santa Claus who also flew through the sky with a sled and Reindeer, rather than an 8 legged horse.
That's right. We called it the Yule Log. It was a chocolate cake, dusted with icing sugar and Happy Yule written on it using icing.
@@marcN19 That's the one ...
Santa is a Christianised name, stolen with a play on words from Grampus or Oden
@@henchy3rd It's actually far deeper than that ... and the name Santa has little to do with Northern Pagan tradition. It draws from the Christian Mysticism end of the spectrum but goes way above the heads of any secular discussion found here. As usual, it was tacked on to a great many things ... The Sanctus or Sacred Claustrum = Saint or Sacred hence Santa Claus. It is all to do with Xtian Mysticism not taught to secular Society or the profane. The exoteric take stories for myths and literal tales .... the esoteric understand the deeper meaning. For Northern Pagans it is sufficient to accept the doubling of the figure of Woden or Odin.
God Jul och Gott Nytt År ❤
God jul og godt nyttår 😊
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
& Gott Nytt År.
God Jul 🇸🇪🌲
Här I Sverige börjar det ju bli rasistiskt att säga god jul.
Så GOD JUL på er medhedningar och germanska brödrafolk.
😅
@@peterdammeliusosterode3424 GOD JUL på dig . Men jag förstår inte varför är det rasistisk? Kanske är jag dumma.
Goda önskar från Sverige
God jul, och god fortsättning!
@@Schmorgus 🇸🇪🌲
The Sami stuff would be interesting. That could explain about the tree, the fly agaric mushrooms, the raindeer, and other stuff maybe relating to shamanic practice.
When Santa was a Shaman was a pretty good book. More information has come out since it was published, but much of the information is valid.
@@LouisGaufridiSorcererI have never heard of that book I'll have to check it out
Never understood why there is such little mention of the german sources and the concentration on Norse Yule, we have recorded month names for the original germanic months dated to the 7th century recorded by Charlemagne that pre-dated mass christian conversion. In that time, our December was marked as Hailagmanod or Holy Month, and the modern german word for Christmas Weihnachten, or consecrated nights takes its origin from Hailagnachten or Holy Nights celebrated by the germanic tribes around the 12 days between the solstice and the new year otherwise known as the rough nights, rouchnächten. These month names were still used until the 19th century in the rural areas of Germany.
I have thought about that as well. Probably it is because a lot of sources have been destroyed over the coarse of history.
My family still observed 13 nights of rauchnocht its a great way of onsoak in yhe season between 25th and 6th Hail!
I’m sad the video ended😂 Very informative thank you ❤
Good Yule everyone!
Great info thank you. Happy Yule!
Thank you for the video. Happy Yule!
Happy Yule everyone.
I'm glad you put this out there. I was born on the full moon in January of 91! Explains a lot lol
Blessings to all and let the magik be with you 🧙🏼♂️🎄
I appreciate all of this wonderful information. I don't think there's any reason to throw stones given the depth of this information. Thank you!
Wonderful and very informative video. Thank you for taking the time to gather these sources and educating us. Happy Yule.
God Jol!! I’m sharing this video to my Facebook page to help educate more people.
excellent and Happy Yule
Happy Yule !
Great to see your video popping up again! Happy Yule!
Thank you for sharing, specially that map in the beginning, it really clears out some ancestral questions for me. I was born in Eastern Europe, Romania, and I had 2 Hungarian grandmas, 1 Romanian grandpa, and one German grandpa, all born in Romania, so there’s lots of Germanic people in Romania, so now it makes sense how they get there and when. And that just makes even more sense for our family name. Thanks again
That sounds like the much later Siebenburgen. Look it up.
The winter solstice was celebrated on every continent and done so much further back in time than 3000 years ago
God Jul også til dig
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
You are a great scholar!
True! And a good teacher, atleast for me. Not too long super intricate videos, onpoint, sources, conveyed with his own thoughts and visual affections about the subjects. Makes it harder to misunderstand something, and easier to conceive det frame of mind and reasoning etc. behind it. That usually comes from a point-of-view that is of selfinterest/passion/practicing. Gode vinternetter! =)
God Jul!
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
Brother, nice page! I was buying stuff from Grimfrost but now I will buy from you too! I value your work and info very much, skål fra Danmark! ( by the way I though Jul was related to Wheel, like the full circle of the year)
Grimfrost has faux "viking " stuff .Use with care
Well done! ᛏᛏᛏ
Merry yule man thanks for your videos. When my bitcoin stuff works out, you're the man I think deserves any loot from the tube. I've learned much from you. I'm part native American. So I wanted to learn about the ancestry of all my ppl. I guess that kinda explains me. I find you to be intelligent and a good person. Atlest what you show of yourself has been inspiring.
Thank you for the video
Interesting to hear of your position of Yul being Wolf's Moon and the 'no fighting or warring.' I understand this as being originally tied into Battle of Bråvalla 17th Jan 758AD by decree of King Sigurd Hring. The original writings having been in the Personal Royal Library fire of 1697 which destroyed much of Sweden's little known and guarded history with no backups which why so little is known of King Hring and that era. I understand that King Hring detested warring and corruption of his uncle Wartooth much preferring trade commerce such he established Birka in 751 with a stable defined tax on goods. By winter solstice 757 much of the armies had been gathered at Kolmården Forest edge the Bråvalla Plains, and Bråviken shore. The battle seven years in the making was to happen 3rd week of Spring but moved up due to Wartooth declining health and determined to die in battle. When the battle ended Hring declared the time of Yul during Wartooth's funeral pyer the day following the battle which plays to your three day Yule along with three days of Wolf's moon.
Lovely video.
Thank you for this!
Those AI cringe pagan images are the stuff of nightmares
AI cringe pagan images compared with AI cringe translations.
Best mix!
LOL yuck ai
😂
Intressant kanal. Första gången här 😀 är du forskare?
I'm sure many European peoples at different times had celebrations for the returning of the sun with different names. If the days are getting shorter and you're rationing your winter food supplies it's going to be a relief to know the days are lengthening. Then it's only natural to break into your food store to have a bit of a blow out and celebrate, giving a bit of fun in the cold and dark. I don't know about calculations based on the moon, I'm sure some ethnicities had different associations and legends with the time of year. When you are calculating the shortest day with shadows and the position of the rising sun in practice it's going to be a few days after the solstice to be sure that the days are getting longer. For instance 25th December.
Very informative thank you
Good morning just came across your channel. Very interesting. I am part nor actually I’m mixed with a little bit of everything but I am a new subscriber thank you❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
My very best wishes for you 💚
Really interesting video! God Jol! 🌲
God Jul😊🎄
🎄Skòl💀🍻
A good one. God Jul!
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Tack och God Jul! 🎄🍻🥧🍬🐖
I am a catechumen of the Orthodox Church, but I respect your academic and attestable approach to the subject matter. If you want to know about paganism, go to the pagans. The intellectually honest, intelligent ones at least lol. Much respect.
God Jul 🔥 !
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
Thanks for the vid and just realized Heiðabýr Thor's Hammer (Bronze) is back in stock 📯 🎁
The reason for the 25th December being selected as that of the birth of Christ was more to do with the worship of Sol Invictus - which coincidentally had its major feast day on 25th December. Around the same time as this was Saturnalia, but Sol Invictus was extremely popular around the time that Christianity was gaining in popularity and in the waning days of the empire. Equally, Saturnalia, Solstice and other festivals happening around a similar time would also add to the reason why 25/12 was picked.
I wonder whether or not the more eastern (old) calendar date is what’s being referred to by Haakon? Orthodox Christianity follows the Julian calendar, so I suspect that Christmas is celebrated much later than ours is, as we switched to the Gregorian calendar at some point. So I wonder, if the calendar was Julian at the time, Christmas being later was possibly closer to Yule, at the first new moon in January? Especially if the actual date of 25/12 isn’t mentioned (but I absolutely bow to your far superior knowledge on this). Just that the two different calendars, juxtaposed with orthodox Christianity celebrating it later could be part of the background to this?
And thus, as we in the west follow the Gregorian, the assumption of many would be that Yule is in December? Also God Jul!
The Julian Calendar had standardised the solstices and equinoxes to the 25th of the month in question. So in 45 BCE they were on the 25th, but the calendar wasn’t exact enough so there was drift of the calendar so the solstice was no longer on the 25th as a solar phenomenon but was still celebrated on the 25th.
Happy Yule from Rus!
danke for all the amazing work you put into videos that help me to inner stand our past. Our forefathers will travel within us to eternity ,the good things. travel well friend
Thank you
Hail the Solstice ❤
@smokinhoff9209: Hail to you too! Skal
@smokinhoff9289: Hail to you too! Skal
Solstice or yule?
@michaelatkin9649 saturnalia.
Christians used the Julian calender back then. December roughly corresponded with current January today. After the switch to the Gregorian calendar Christmas was shifted to December whereas the Orthodox continues to use January. Can that be a connection with ɠ̊eol as you mentioned being in January (because the full moon new moon thing)?
Pretty sure it was a decree by a king in the 900s to shift it closer to yule for whatever reason. Dont think it had anything to do with the calendar changes
How is Yule related to Up Helly Aa festival in Shetland? …Or is it related at all?
How do you say your closing statement? It goes so fast i would like to be able to annunciate it clearly and correctly
Authentic viking pronunciation: SKREEEEEEEE!!!!! 🦖
He says: God jul, og vi ses neste gang. (the D in god is normally silent, like here)
Direct translation: (Have a) Good yule, and we'll see eachother next time.
Hope that helps 🙂
I’m still trying to figure out what the greeting he says in the beginning is 🤣🤣🤣
@@goosemama9559 He says, Velkommen alle sammen. It means Welcome everybody.
@ Thank you 😊 🙏❤️
Nice video. Thank you! :-) What kind of calender is the one you show from minute 7:00 ?
Yup thanks
God Jul 🌲🦌❄️
So my December 28th Spawn Day lands between Solstice and Yule......
Interesting......
God Jul!!
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
Very interesting ! SKäl !
I'm very interested in the Spirit Communication Ritual! Would you please make a video about it?
Great video! While the basis of the Norse sagas are grounded in pre-Christian traditions, it’s important to recognize that they were heavily influenced by Christianity during their writing. We must be cautious when distinguishing between authentic pagan elements and those shaped by Christian morality and symbolism. Additionally, alternative research, including findings from archaeologists in China, suggests intriguing links between pre-Christian Northern European culture and Taoist practices, offering a new perspective on the spiritual connections across Eurasia.
Could you do a longer talk about the prim staffs only? I guess you have taken some info into the year calender you made, whi ch I BOUGHT - but would love to have explained the original symbols :D
Is there anywhere in the sagas of rolling burning ball down a hill during Yule to bring back the sun, the Saxons in England did this.
Why not use X? :/ The others can go to Hel.
In any case, thank you so much for such informative video once again!
Mothers Night! I hold Vigil for the long dark night! Academia and modern Practitioners need more conversations!
I have recently seen a lot of videos on Yule. Those videos point to Saturnia, I hope that's right. So is Halloween , Mabon. Maybe it was for The Romans and Celtic tribes,.I would think they celebrated other gods , not just Saturn. I also understood winter began on Nov 1st. The solstice would be mid way between the beginning of winter and the beginning of spring in February. Am I understanding this correctly? Yule actually occured in January as well, not on the solstice or even a few days later,on the 25th? Thank you for helping me to understand Yule better..
Look here i am with a phone and a watch and a calender on the wall and i cannot keep up with what day week or month it is so how on earth did they do it all those years ago???
In sweden christmas eve is 24 december 😊
Glad Yule all you ppl
is there any source or example what the people wear after the viking age ? like in mediaval age . they still had their traditiobal clothing ? they get plate armor ? they still had their traditional decorations like runes , knotworks , or everybody just converted to the basic european christian style ? . i cant find anything most videos and sources focused only on the viking age .
Tack för det ovärdeliga arbete du lägger på oss....pöbeln!! 😆 God Jul från ett regnigt jävla syd-Sverige🍺
Great video! How is the pagan baptism spelled? You enunciate it as "vac knee oowsen". Please let me know what word this is. Am interested to study this more
I would be very interested to hear more about pagan baptism.
Full moon in January is on my birthday 😮
Gledelig Jul - uansett feiret dato 😉
Vi skryter alltid av forfedrene; Engebret, Knut, Haakon, Frik ❤
Flott genser, min får mange kommentarer på jobben.
Well done. I'm Celtic so I've been trying to incorporate the winter solstice festival into my modern Christian traditions
Júl tide greetings to you sir from WA. So, I am curious or confused...... or both. LOL. So where did the tradition of celebrations for 12 days come into this? Is that solstice celebrations?
Thanks buddy!
Hey i was born right before solstice on Dec 19
It would make sense
I want to watch his fights but I've never found his name in the comments
Hmmm...we have a family name, "Jule". And they were some of the first settlers of Saxe Gotha in US. Food for thought. 🤔
God jul og glædelig Kristi fødselsdag 🎄❤🥳
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It must have been a very young boar for it to be in the banquet hall and all laid hands on. They are extremely ferocious.
Hi, are you using AI for this video? Is the original available, please? I was looking for listening to your voice but this is... Ick😝
Greetings from Germany 😘
Sorry! It looks like UA-cam started doing this automatically. It wasn't me. You should be able to change the settings and watch it in the original. :)
Appreciate, thank you for the magic and I can hear you😊 your voice.
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God jul!
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
God Jul! 🌲🦌❄️
Gleðileg Jól!
I’d can’t confirm but I heard the christmas tree was tied to Martin Luther. But the hanging of evergreens (wreaths, mistle toes, and trees?) are an ancient roman tradition (possibly other cultures as well) that predates christianity
Also Germanic & northern European in general. Christians used, in many areas, plants or natural familiar things which held pagan meaning to facilitate conversion, using relatable items & claiming their own use was the "truth." It had proven effective... & Still many insist the tree is Christian.
There are no fir trees in the Middle East.
@ or was it a germanic tradition that the germanic population chose to christianize. I would argue it was both. These traditions became germanic traditions as opposed to pagan in this way. With pagan roots, or course
Im going to stay cringe pagan. We get 12 days and get to incorporate Christmas. 🎉😂 Great information though. Happy Yule/Merry Christmas to all.
In Niedersachsen we say JulMaand not Dezember in our Plattdeutsch
For Januar we say Hattmaand means hard month or difficult month
I heard you mention "Pagans did celebrate Jesus birth on Solstice, not 25 December like we do today", that's just wrong for a simple reason: by those ages, 24-25 December was actually Solstice.
You can see evidence in the Roman Calendar with 24 June being "Dies Lampadarum" or Day of Janus (Saint John), Summer Solstice. 25 December also being for Roman "Sol Invictus", although March Equinox being a more important day in roman paganism, you can find 25 March being Attideia Hilaria (Attis Resurrection)
I attended an annual Halloween event called Dead Ball. A group wore Viking costumes. Do you consider that appropriation? I have been curious since reading about some White Nationalists in the USA associate themselves with Viking culture.
The Winter Solstice is not Wiccan. It has existed thousends of years before that in practically every pagan calendar and belief system
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Question - You use the term pagan. Its definition is “outside the main accepted/authorized religion(s). Do you hold the connotation that , for example that in this Yule discourse that pagan simply means pre or beginning of the Christian era in the Germanic/Norse tribes? As a historian of religion, I personally do not use the word pagan when discussing the spread of any of the Abrahamic faiths who use the term to promote the agenda that monotheism is more rational (blame the Greek philosophers for changing polytheism to monotheism under the Eastern Roman Empire) and more powerful so it is evil or wrong to have more than one god. (I won’t delve into to how my issues that the Western Catholic/Protestant view that the Trinity is monotheism…. ) go into my explaining why Christian & Muslim agendas may present it as “evil” to gain authority. I chose to use polytheistic. I view “pagan” as a pejorative term mostly based on what you seem to see as the same issue - new or self-created religious practices; I’m definitely calling out Wicca. Wicca or Neo-paganism is a late 19th-early 20th century C.E. creation mostly based around n the Gothic revival of late Victorian era/Alister Crowley influence.
I am also curious if you see a merging of Irish/Brythonic (Scottish/C’mry or Welsh) polytheistic beliefs/magic/ritual with Norse traditions since certainly Dublin and the Scottish Northern Isles had trade routes well established not simply raids and cultures were being shared along with settlement.
If pagan is your choice, I respect that. I will often start a course or section with a “working definition” that combines what research has linked together.
Thank you for posting these sources and your explanations. I will be recommending your site for source sagas as I expect that spring and summer rites/ritual will be up for students looking for good resources on the Germanic/Norse mythology, etc.. Glaðligr Jól (from the States)
It is said that St. Boniface was the inspiration for the evergreen Christmas tree. He used it to help describe specific Christian concepts.
It was used after he supposedly defeated the power of Thor over the Nordic pagans and when they saw this great feat they enmass converted to Christianity.
So the legend goes.
He used evergreen bc that was a familiar thing to the pagans. I can't cite them bc I don't remember but use of evergreen predates him, & is recorded somewhere. I have to be up for work early... I know it is searchable so I'm saying this much at least.
Merry Christmas Michael.....uh, er.... Skol, and hails Allfoth my brother Thor!!! May your hearth stay hot and bright during this Yule and keep the harsh winter landvettir from your door 🥸🤓🥸🤓🥸🤓Praise the Herran, praise the Herran 🙌🙌