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Warrior: We bring you the Yule log!
What you gonna do with that, Yule?
Norway is known for the Yule log, but the witch legend is more unique.
Sir Henry Yule was a Scottish Orientalist who spent the majority
of his adult life abroad.
The first Christmas
trees were made of red oak, which is the same tree used for the Yule log.
To dream of a Yule log, foretells that your joyous anticipations will
be realized by your attendance at great festivities.
Yule Logs are supposed to be cut from red
oak trees and burned all of Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day.
People! May the Yule log burn throughout Yol,
and bring its warmth and light to us in these darkest of days.
By the end of the 19th century this tradition had also spread to Norway and Sweden, replacing the Yule Goat.
In 1886 Henry Yule and Arthur Burnell published Hobson-Jobson,
a guide to words from Indian languages that had passed into English.
Priest: People! May the Yule log burn throughout yol,
And bring its warmth and light to us in these darkest of days.
That is because there is a second, illegal annual Christmas tradition in Gävle-
trying to burn down the Yule Goat before Christmas.
I have saved it for the end because this Yule bookshelf optimizes the room space using
more the upper part of the room.
Various writers of the time condemned caroling as lewd,
indicating that the unruly traditions of Saturnalia and Yule may have continued in this form.
It is said, during Yule, children would place their boots filled with carrots,
straw, or sugar near the chimney for Odin's flying horse to eat.
Andrew Yule is not only about its business empire
but also about the immense contributions it made towards socio-economic and industrial development of the country.
History of Andrew Yule is not only about its business empire
but also about the immense contributions it made towards socio-economic and industrial development of the country.
If Candlemas day be dry and fair, The half o' winter to come and mair, If Candlemas day be wet and foul,
The half of winter's gone at Yule.
The pagan Anglo-Saxon event known as Yule was in full swing during the winter solstice a few centuries after that,
eventually evolving into the festival we now know as Christmas.
According to Yule and Burnell:“There is little doubt that the name
was taken from Chile in South America, whence the plant was carried to the Indian archipelago and thence to India.”.
The Scottish version; If Candlemas day be dry and fair, The half o' winter to come and mair, If Candlemas day be wet and foul,
The half of winter's gone at Yule.
Inspired initially by the Norse god Odin, a figure known as the Yule Goat(which is what Santa is still
called in Finland to this day) was said to deliver gifts on Midwinter's night.
During 1966, advertising consultant Stig Gavlén
developed the idea of constructing a giant straw Yule goat for the holiday season,
hoping it would function as something of an attraction to bring business to the shops around it.
In 1966, advertising consultant Stig Gavlén
developed the idea of constructing a giant straw Yule goat for the holiday season,
hoping it would function as something of an attraction to bring business to the shops around it.
At the end of the Yule season a procession of up to a thousand“guizers” march through Lerwick in gangs,
finally reaching the shore where their burning torches are flung into a replica Viking longboat, which is pushed off to sea with great ceremony.