Customs such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule.

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An illustration of people collecting a Yule log from Chambers Book of Days ( 1832 ) p. 736

A Yule log is a large and extremely hard log which is burned in the hearth as a part of traditional Yule or Christmas celebrations in several European cultures.

The expression Yule log has also come to refer to log-shaped Christmas cakes, also known as chocolate logs or Bûche de Noël.

The Yule log is related to other Christmas and Yuletide traditions such as the Ashen faggot.

The term " Yule log " is not the only term used to refer to the custom.

The Yule log was originally an entire tree, that was carefully chosen and brought into the house with great ceremony with the purpose being to provide maximum warmth and endurance.

Robert Chambers, in his 1832 work, Book of Days notes that " two popular observances belonging to Christmas are more especially derived from the worship of our pagan ancestors — the hanging up of the mistletoe and the burning of the Yule log.

" James George Frazer in his work on anthropology, The Golden Bough ( p. 736 ) holds that " the ancient fire-festival of the winter solstice appears to survive " in the Yule log custom.

However, some historians have disagreed with this claim, for instance the Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm von Sydow attacked Frazer's theories, claiming that the Yule log had never had any religious significance, and was instead simply a festive decoration with practical uses.

The first mention of the Yule log in Britain is a written account by the clergyman Robert Herrick, from the 1620s or 1630s.

The Yule log was not only seen as a magical protective amulet in traditional British rural culture.

Originally a festival held to break up the long nights of winter and mark the end of Yule, the festival has become one celebrating the isles ' heritage and includes a procession of men dressed as Vikings and the burning of a replica longship.

Modranicht, an event focused on collective female beings attested by Bede as having occurred among the pagan Anglo-Saxons on what is now Christmas Eve, has been seen as further evidence of a fertility event during the Yule period.

The traditions of the Yule log died out in Britain in the latter 19th and early 20th century because of, according to historian Ronald Hutton, " the reduction in farm labour and the disappearance of the old-fashioned open hearths ", however the Bûche de Noël dessert has become a Christmas tradition in the UK, as in many French speaking places.

Gradually, commercialism has made him look more and more like the American Santa Claus, but the Swedish jultomte, the Norwegian julenisse, the Danish julemand and the Finnish joulupukki ( in Finland he is still called the Yule Goat, although his animal features have disappeared ) still has features and traditions that are rooted in the local culture.

Moreover, upon arriving at the court of Denmark, he kills a monstrous beast that has been terrorizing the court at Yule for two years.

The two may, instead, be holly and mistletoe ( which has white berries with green branches ), which would align more closely with the tradition of the defeat at Yule of the Holly King by the Oak King ( mistletoe ' traditionally ' grows on oak trees, although it will grow on other types of tree ).

Then a Yule – Simon distributed variable K has the following geometric distribution conditional on W:

The Christmas Philatelic Club was formed in 1969 by Christmas stamp collectors, and has issued its bimonthly journal, the Yule Log since that time.

Later work by Yule, Morton, DeRose, Guthrie, and others has shown his methods unreliable, and even his basic counts to be flawed ( for example, he counted a word as unique to the Pastorals even when very close cognates occur in the remainder of the Epistles ; a particularly unfortunate error for Greek ).

Harald has recently converted to Christianity, and they present him with the bell of St. James, upon which Harald invites them to celebrate Yule with him.

The Yule process is a canonical generative process for power laws, and has been known since 1925.

Yule had previously been celebrated on midwinter night for three nights, according to the saga.

Mr. Yule had been illegally manufacturing fireworks in his basement.

A great many video fireplace productions with a similar format have also been marketed on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, some of which are entitled " Yule Log " The Yule Log program also helped influence the " Puppy Bowl ", an annual special broadcast by cable network Animal Planet on the day of the Super Bowl.

* The " Frontier Route "— surveyed in 1836 by Captain Yule ( Royal Engineers ) from Saint John, via Fredericton, up the Saint John River valley to Canada East, not far from the International Boundary which had been recently decided in favour of the United States during the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.

Over 1, 000 cultivars have been selected, including plants selected for cold tolerance (' Cobalt ', a male cultivar, is able to tolerate temperatures as low as − 32 ° C ), growth form ( e. g. dwarf forms such as ' Cardinal Hedge ', a female plant growing to 1. 2 m tall ), and color and abundance of fruit ( notable female cultivars including the large-berried ' Yule ', and the yellow-berried ' Canary ' and ' Morgan Gold ').

The edition of Luigi Foscolo Benedetto, Marco Polo, Il Milione, under the patronage of the Comitato Geografico Nazionale Italiano ( Florence: Olschki, 1928 ), collated sixty additional manuscript sources, in addition to some eighty that had been collected by Sir Henry Yule, for his 1871 edition.

Ian Yule, who played ' Tosh Donaldson ', had been a real mercenary in Africa in the 1960s and ' 70s.

The Velvet Underground, which at that time consisted of Doug Yule ( vocals / guitar ), Willie Alexander ( keyboards / vocals ), Walter Powers ( bass guitar ) and Maureen Tucker ( drums ), had toured the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in October and November 1971 to support its latest album, Loaded, which had been written and recorded when Lou Reed was in the band, and which had seen a European release in March 1970.

Yule later said, " I don ’ t think Moe would have been expensive in money, but too costly in terms of ' management ', meaning that she didn ’ t take a lot of bullshit and would have taken a lot of ' handling ' on Sesnick's part.

There he investigated the health problems associated with factory work, one result of which was an influential study of accidents which he produced with Yule.

A Christmas ham or Yule ham is a traditional ham dish associated with modern Christmas, Yule and Fennoscandian Jul.

In Europe, this is particularly the case with the various customs of Carnival or Fasnacht and the Yule traditions surrounding Santa Claus / Sinterklaas.

Yule or Yuletide (" Yule time ") is a religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples and some neighboring peoples, before later being absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas.

Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are used in the Nordic countries for the Christian Christmas ( with its religious rites ), but also for other holidays of the season.

Yule is the modern English representative of the Old English words ġéol or ġéohol and ġéola or ġéoli, with the former indicating "( the 12-day festival of ) Yule " ( later: " Christmastide ") and the latter indicating "( the month of ) Yule ", whereby ǽrra ġéola referred to the period before the Yule festival ( December ) and æftera ġéola referred to the period after Yule ( January ).

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

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

Saga of Hákon the Good credits King Haakon I of Norway with the Christianization of Norway, as well as rescheduling the date of Yule to coincide with Christian celebrations held at the time.

" In time, Haakon had a law passed that established that Yule celebrations were to take place at the same time as when the Christians held their celebrations, " and at that time everyone was to have ale for the celebration with a measure of grain, or else pay fines, and had to keep the holiday while the ale lasted.

" This saga is set soon after Iceland converted to Christianity and identifies Yule with Christmas: " No Christian man is wont to eat meat this day Eve, because that on the morrow is the first day of Yule ," says she, " wherefore must men first fast today.

In Germanic Neopagan sects, Yule is celebrated with gatherings that often involve a meal and gift giving.

* " The Yule Log ", a page with information about the Yule log