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

" The traditions of the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar ( Sonargöltr ) stilll reflected in the Christmas ham, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule customs, and customs which Simek takes as " indicat the significance of the feast in pre-Christian times.

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 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.

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

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.

According to Yule and Burnell's Hobson-Jobson ( 1903 ) the word originally referred to loose trousers tied around the waist.

The Yule Log is a television program which is broadcast traditionally on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning ( except for the 1990s and the year 2000 when the program wasn't broadcast ), originally by New York City television station WPIX but now by many other Tribune Company-owned television stations, including WGN America, and by Antenna TV starting in 2011.

A documentary film by Paul Yule and Andy Harries, originally made for the BBC in 1986.

Simon originally called it the Yule distribution.

The Yule – Simon distribution arose originally as the limiting distribution of a particular stochastic process studied by Yule as a model for the distribution of biological taxa and subtaxa.

# Doug Yule interviewed by persons unknown in " Velvet Underground ist wieder da ", originally published in Sounds # 34, November / December 1971, republished by Thomas Östreicher.

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 ).

Beyond this, the work brought together for the first time the work on individual processes by English statisticians, principally Udny Yule, and the theory of stationary stochastic processes created by Russian mathematicians, principally A. Y. Khinchin.

In their 1886 dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.

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.

Davidson says that loaves of this type may take the place of an animal sacrifice or animal victim, such as the boar-shaped loaf baked at Yule in Sweden, and that in Värmland, Sweden " within living memory " grain from the last sheaf was customarily used to bake a loaf into the shape of a little girl that is subsequently shared by the whole household.

Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California.

* Doug Yule – bass guitar, organ, backing vocals, lead vocal on " Ride into the Sun "

A little before Yule ( Christmas ), earl Rognvald fared with a great following into the Little Papey ( Papa Stronsay ) to fetch malt, to be brewed for Yule.

* Major Greenwood and G. Udny Yule ( 1920 ), " An Inquiry into the Nature of Frequency Distributions Representative of Multiple Happenings with Particular Reference to the Occurrence of Multiple Attacks of Disease or of Repeated Accidents ".

In 1934 J. Arthur Rank, Lady Yule and John Corefield formed the British National Films Company and went into production in answer to the challenge by the Evening News to the Methodist Times.

Pearson was beginning to work in statistics and Yule followed him into this new field.