The Norse Witch | How was Yule celebrated in the Viking Age? 🎄 @TheNorseWitch | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Per popular request and fitting to the season, in this video I'm talking about Viking Age Yule. We will go over when it would have been celebrated, which activities were included in the celebrations, which gods were honored and also if our more modern traditions like the Yule Log and the Yule Goat are actually from the Viking Age. Let's go!

Sources:
Andreas Nordberg - Jul, disting och förkyrklig tideräkning
Bede - The Reckoning of Time
Rudolf Simek - Dictionary of Northern Mythology
Skáldskaparmál
Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar 
Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks
Saga of Hákon the Good
Gulathingslog
Óðins nǫfn

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:51 - When was Yule celebrated?
05:46 - How was Yule celebrated?
09:19 - Are our modern Christmas Traditions rooted in heathen times?
13:43 - How I will celebrate this year