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Yule

[ yool ]

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noun

Christmas, or the Christmas season.
an ancient Germanic pagan holiday centering around the winter solstice, now sometimes celebrated by neopagans.

yule

/ ��ː�� /

noun

literary.
sometimes capital
1. Christmas, the Christmas season, or Christmas festivities
2. ( in combination )
  yuletide

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Yule¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English yole, Old English geōl, geol(a) “Christmas day, Christmastide”; cognate with Old Norse ��ō��, the name of the pagan winter feast lasting 12 days, later applied to Christmas; akin to Gothic jiuleis

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of Yule¹

Old English ��ō��, originally a name of a pagan feast lasting 12 days; related to Old Norse ��ō��, Swedish jul, Gothic jiuleis

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So in that case, you treat it more like the Yule log, right, at Christmas time.

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"Everything is the same as Yule Day, with a big party at the end of the evening."

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Daniel Yule, who won the race last year for the third time, lost his balance and the Swiss skier missed a gate in his second run.

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Juovllat, or Yule, was a time to hide from the terrifying stállu, a creature who sucked out the life spirit of the Sámi with an iron tube.

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Celebrated by cultures all over the world for thousands of year, the winter solstice is also known as Yule, a celebration of light and the symbolic rebirth of the sun.

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