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yule

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1. yule - Noun

2. Yule - Proper noun

Meaning

Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years. Jeremy Irons

A green Yule makes a fat churchyard. Danish Proverb

It is eich to cry yule on another man's cost. Scottish Proverb

A description of pagan Yule practices is provided (notes are Hollander's own): It was ancient custom that when sacrifice was to be made, all farmers were to come to the heathen temple and bring along with them the food they needed while the feast lasted. Source: Internet

Additionally, most baronies in the SCA have their own traditional annual events such as Baronial Arts and Sciences competition, a championship tournament, and often a Yule or Twelfth Night feast. Source: Internet

Among many others (see List of names of Odin ), the long-bearded god Odin bears the names jólfaðr main (Old Norse for "Yule father") and jólnir main ("the Yule one"). Source: Internet

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