The Birkebeiners besieged it for 20 weeks in the winter of 1201 before the Baglers surrendered.

It is frequently traced to the symbolism of evergreen trees in supposed " pre-Christian winter rites ", especially with the story of the Donar Oak and Saint Boniface.

In the winter of 1186 – 1187, Isaac II Angelus offered his sister Theodora, as a bride to Conrad's younger brother Boniface, to renew the Byzantine alliance with Montferrat, but Boniface was married.

He thereupon went to London and spent the winter talking to men of wealth.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1805 – 1806 at Fort Clatsop, a small log structure south and west of modern day Astoria.

Some of the victorious fleet went in pursuit of him ; but Octavian himself visited Greece and Asia, and spent the winter at Samos ; though he was obliged to go for a short time to Brundisium to settle a mutiny and arrange for assignations of land.

He spent his first winter using his upside-down boat for shelter, which is reflected in the architecture of the village's Community Centre.

He spent much of his last two decades unable to afford heat in winter and subsisting on old bread donated by the local baker.

Vancouver spent the winter in continuing exploration of the Sandwich Islands, the contemporary islands of Hawaii.

He again spent the winter in the Sandwich Islands.

Elagabalus and his entourage spent the winter of 218 in Bithynia at Nicomedia, where the emperor's religious beliefs first presented themselves as a problem.

Before being promoted to the majors, Aaron spent the winter of 1953 playing in Puerto Rico.

Goebbels spent the winter of 1919 – 20 in Munich, where he witnessed and admired the violent nationalist reaction against the attempted communist revolution in Bavaria.

As this was too late in the year to make the trip to Upper Canada because of severe weather, the Simcoes spent the winter in Quebec City.

Antony returned to Alexandria with her, where he spent the winter of 41 BC – 40 BC.

With winter approaching, the Athenians were then forced to withdraw into their quarters, and they spent the winter gathering allies and preparing to destroy Syracuse.

It is still uncertain where Bruce spent the winter of 1306-07.

There is also the possibility that it is a joke about playing hide and seek, only to realize ( winter having arrived during the months spent hiding ) that no one wants to find you.

Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.

Lewis and Clark, for whom the expedition became known, recruited the 45 men to accompany them, and spent a winter training them near St. Louis for the effort.

Over the next four years, Stravinsky and his family lived in Russia during the summer months and spent each winter in Switzerland, which became a second home to them.

In July 1808 he left Paris and spent the autumn and winter in Switzerland as the guest of Madame de Staël at Coppet, in the midst of her circle of wits.

During the late 1940s, Norman Rockwell spent the winter months as artist-in-residence at Otis College of Art and Design.

Darius spent winter of 516-515 BC in Gandhara, preparing for the to conquer the Indus Valley.

With Cromwell's fall in 1540, the Latimers reclaimed some dignity and as Lord Latimer attended Parliament in 1542 he and Catherine spent time in London that winter.

Catherine spent the winter of 1542 – 1543 nursing her husband.

The party continued east via the Sweetwater River, North Platte River ( where they spent the winter of 1812 – 1813 ) and Platte River to the Missouri River, finally arriving in St. Louis in the spring of 1813.

Winterval was a name given to a whole series of winter festivals, and was not a renaming of Christmas.

Green is one of the Christmas colors as well, possibly dating back to pre-Christian times, when evergreens were worshiped for their ability to maintain their color through the winter season.

Romans used green holly and evergreen as decorations for their winter solstice celebration called Saturnalia, which eventually evolved into a Christmas celebration.

The Christmas and holiday season surrounds the winter solstice, Christmas and other holidays, and is celebrated by many religions and cultures.

The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.

* " Holiday ", " winter " or " festive " in place of " Christmas "

Many Humanists also celebrate the winter and summer solstice, the former of which ( in the northern hemisphere ) is the root of the celebration of Christmas, and the equinoxes, of which the vernal equinox is associated with Christianity's Easter and indeed with all other springtime festivals of renewal.

Cultural influences such as Christmas creep may have led to the winter season being perceived as beginning earlier in recent years, although high latitude countries like Canada are usually well into their real winters before the December solstice.

Lewis ' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where it was always winter but never Christmas.

Yule was an indigenous midwinter ( winter solstice ) festival celebrated by the Germanic peoples, absorbed into celebrations surrounding Christmas over time with Christianization.

In the winter of the same year, Theodore's brother Joseph visited him in Constantinople, but refused to attend the Christmas mass in Hagia Sophia, at which the emperor, the patriarch, and the priest Joseph would have been present.

In the winter, thousands arrive in Zakopane to ski, especially around Christmas and in February.

The formal cathedral services are linked to the cycle of the year and respond to the seasons of the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas falling in the winter and Easter in the spring.

Yulefest is a long-running tourism initiative that promotes Northern Hemisphere-style Christmas celebrations during the Australian winter months June to August.

Ivan Alexander released John V and Amadeus returned to spend the winter in Mesembria, arriving there with John V before Christmas.

They are supposed to hunt on specific nights ( the eves of St. John, St. Martin, Saint Michael the Archangel, All Saints, Christmas, New Year, Saint Agnes, Saint David, and Good Friday ), or just in the autumn and winter.

Leicester Square Christmas Fair. The square regularly hosts a fair each winter and a stage is erected for performances connected to other events such as the Chinese New Year.

" In the winter and around the Christmas season they have Christmas hayrides which take you through the woods full of lights.

The Elizabeth Marina, which in the past was filled with trash and debris along its walkway, has also beautified and many celebrations are held year round, from a Hispanic festival in the late spring to the lighting of a Christmas tree in the winter.

During the winter, people from across all 50 states travel to Muskogee to see Honor Heights transformed into the Garden of Lights, a Christmas lights display.

Trosa is known for its season markets, Trosa Market in the summer and the Harvest and Christmas markets during fall and winter.

A Christmas carol ( also called a noël ) is a carol ( song or hymn ) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas.