Yule
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Yule is a winter festival and time of the year historically observed by heathen Germanic peoples that was later merged with the festival of Christmas during the process of Christianisation. The oldest
A drinking scene on the Tängelgårda IV image stone from Gotland, in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm
Reconstruction of a Taplow drinking horn, British Museum.
Fresco of two warriors, one of which with the head of a dog, on the ceiling of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
Julbock costume, Bungemuseet, Gotland.
Christmas
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Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A liturgic
Yule
…Old Norse: jól) is a winter festival and time of the year historically observed by heathen Germanic peoples that was later merged with the festival of Christmas during the process of Christianisation. The oldest accounts describe two Yule-months around the winter solstice in early, and sometimes explicitly…
Nativity scene depicted using Christmas lights
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632
Nativity of Christ, medieval illustration from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg, 12th century
The Nativity, from a 14th-century missal, a liturgical book containing texts and music necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year