Pagan saturnalia5/19/2023 Whether the term existed exterior to the Germanic languages remains uncertain, though numerous speculative attempts have been made to find Indo-European cognates outside the Germanic group, too. Both words are cognate with Gothic □□□□□□□ ( jiuleis) Old Norse, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk jól, jol, ýlir Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian Bokmål jul, and are thought to be derived from Proto-Germanic * jehwlą. The Old English ġēol or ġēohol and ġēola or ġēoli indicate the 12-day festival of "Yule" (later: " Christmastide"), the latter indicating the month of "Yule", whereby ǣrra ġēola referred to the period before the Yule festival (December) and æftera ġēola referred to the period after Yule (January). The modern English noun Yule descends from Old English ġēol, earlier geoh(h)ol, geh(h)ol, and geóla, sometimes plural. Furthermore, some present-day Christmas customs and traditions such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others may have connections to older pagan Yule traditions. The term Yule and cognates are still used in English and the Scandinavian languages as well as in Finnish and Estonian to describe Christmas and other festivals occurring during the winter holiday season. Scholars have connected the original celebrations of Yule to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the heathen Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht ("Mothers' Night"). Yule (also called Jul, jól or joulu) is a winter festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples that was incorporated into Christmas during the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples and in the modern period is celebrated separate to the Christian festival by adherents of some new religious movements such as Modern Germanic paganism. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of letters.
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