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.
Horses in Germanic paganism
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There was a significant importance for horses in Germanic paganism, with them being venerated in a continuous tradition among the Germanic peoples from the Nordic Bronze Age until their Christianisati
Odin and Sleipnir depicted on a monument from about the 9th century in Gotland
The gilded side of the Trundholm sun chariot
Remains of the horse burial in Mound 17, Sutton Hoo
The Wulfsen horse burial shown in situ