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.

The Yule log has frequently been associated with having its origins in the historical Germanic paganism which was practiced across northern Europe prior to Christianization.

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.

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

" 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.

In the north-east of England it was commonly called a " Yule Clog ", and in the country's Midlands and West Country, the term " Yule Block " was also used.

In English folklore, Father Christmas was often depicted carrying a Yule Log.

The tradition of the Yule log was discontinued as large fireplaces became an increasingly rarer feature of the average living room.

Haines's marble was cut from the same Yule Quarry where the original gold-veined marble for the Tomb of the Unknowns was mined nearly 80 years ago.

In the 1840s the farm's nisse became the bearer of Christmas presents in Denmark, and was then called julenisse ( Yule Nisse ).

However, this theory, though regarded with certain indulgence by Henry Yule and some modern Georgian historians, was summarily dismissed by Friedrich Zarncke.

" The name the " Old Woman " ( Latin vetula ) for such " corn dolls " was in use among the Germanic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century, where Saint Eligius discouraged them from their old practices: " not make vetulas, ( little figures of the Old Woman ), little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

Yule marble was used in its construction.

It appears that in England and Wales, from at least the late 14th Century, New Year's Day was celebrated on 1 January as part of Yule.

" As the newspaper notes, the house was destroyed and " Yule died two weeks later of burns and injuries suffered.

Mr. Yule, a 54 year old heating technician, was eventually linked to an interstate fireworks ring, and was the owner of a warehouse in Chicago from which 10 tons of chemicals were seized.

This was a pagan custom deplored by Saint Eligius ( died 659 or 660 ), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, "( Do not ) make vetulas, figures of the Old Woman, little deer or iotticos or set tables the house-elf, compare Puck ( mythology ) | Puck at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks Yule custom.

Sir Henry Yule ( 1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889 ) was a Scottish Orientalist.

De Góis died in Suzhou, Gansu-the first Ming China city he reached-while waiting for an entry permit to proceed toward Beijing ; but, in the words of Henry Yule, it was his expedition that made " Cathay ... finally disappear from view, leaving China only in the mouths and minds of men ".

In its early years, the Home Shopping Network also aired a Yule Log for the network's only non-broadcasting day before moving to a loop of Tampa Bay Area choirs singing Christmas carols and host wishes in subsequent years.

For Galton, regression had only this biological meaning, but his work was later extended by Udny Yule and Karl Pearson to a more general statistical context.

For many years the only members interested in mathematical statistics were Yule, Edgeworth and Bowley.

Yule Marble is a type of metamorphosed limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, southeast of the town of Marble, Colorado.

Thus, although Squeeze was released nominally as a Velvet Underground album, Yule was the only Velvet to actually perform on it.

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 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.

Additionally, Yule is the traditional name used for Christmas in Scotland in the Scots Language.

In France and Wallonia, and thence also in Quebec and in Lebanon, the Bûche de Noël (" christmas log ") is a traditional dessert, in origin a facsimile of the actual Yule log.

Shortly afterwards, and obviously influenced by the emerging Father Christmas traditions as well as the new Danish tradition, a variant of the tomte / nisse, called the jultomte in Sweden and julenisse in Norway, started bringing the Christmas presents in Sweden and Norway, instead of the traditional julbock ( Yule Goat ).

Juleaften ( Danish for Christmas Eve ) or Yule Eve starts around 6 p. m. when a traditional dinner is served.

Joulupöytä ( translated " Yule table ") is the name of the traditional assortment of foods served at Christmas in Finland, similar to the Swedish smörgåsbord.

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

Tjugondag jul (" Twentieth Day Yule "), or Tjugondag Knut, in English St. Knut's Day, ( Finnish: nuutinpäivä ) is a traditional festival celebrated in Sweden and Finland on January 13.