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

* Yule or " Yuletide " ( translated by " Koleda "), celebrated by Germanic people

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.

" (" Cathay and the way thither ", Henry Yule ).

The custom of starting celebrations 12 days before Christmas ( Advent ) and ending them 12 days after Christmas (" The Twelve Days of Christmas ") is known in various Northern-European countries, with the Icelandic Yule Lads appearing on December 13 and the end of Christmas being celebrated with bonfires and fireworks on January 6.

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.

The four main blót are Jólablót (" Yule blót ") on the winter solstice, Sigurblót (" Victory blót ") on the First Day of Summer, Sumarblót (" Summer blót ") on the summer solstice, and Veturnáttablót (" Winter Nights blót ") on the First Day of Winter.

In the pagan wheel of the year the summer solstice is the time of Litha and the winter solstice is that of Yule.

In addition, Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule ( see winter solstice for more ) are also celebrated around this time.

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

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.

The Grettis Saga refers to Yule as a time of " greatest mirth and joyance among men.

Scholars have connected the month event and Yule time period to the Wild Hunt ( a ghostly procession in the winter sky ), the god Odin ( who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and, as mentioned above, bears the name Jólnir ), and increased supernatural activity, such as the aforementioned Wild Hunt and the increased activities of draugar — undead beings who walk the earth.

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.

* Yule, G. U, 1926, " Why do we sometimes get nonsense correlations between time series?

Tucker returned to the band in late 1970, by which time Reed had left the group and Doug Yule had assumed leadership.

Rooney ( né Joe Yule, Jr .) adopted the professional name Mickey McGuire for a time before finally settling on the last name Rooney.

Yule and Burnell were looking for a catchy title for their dictionary and decided upon this since it was a " typical and delightful example " of the type of the highly domesticated words in the dictionary and at the same time conveyed " a veiled intimation of dual authorship ".

In the 1920s Yule wrote three influential papers on time series analysis, " On the time-correlation problem " ( 1921 ), a critique of the variate difference method, " Why Do We Sometimes Get Nonsense Correlations between Time-series?

Yule made important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis.

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

Some local affiliates provide the Yule Log, a block of time either on Christmas morning or both during the evening hours of Christmas Eve and Christmas morning showing footage of a fireplace, coupled with popular Christmas music.

The Yule season was a time for feasting, drinking, gift-giving, and gatherings, but also the season of awareness and fear of the forces of the dark.

After completing the tour on November 21, 1971, in Groningen, the band planned to start recording a new album, but band manager Steve Sesnick sent all of the band but Yule home, presumably to retain maximum control of the product ( the resulting album was Squeeze, released in 1973 ) and effectively ending Alexander's time with the band.

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.

Indeed Yule commented, " The importance and value of Hooker ’ s scientific work ... was never, in my opinion, appreciated at its proper worth by the Ministry at the time when he was still in its service.

Julmust ( Swedish jul " Yule " and must " juice ") is a soft drink that is mainly consumed in Sweden around Christmas.

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 ).

The previously strong Andy Warhol influence is diminished, with the most notable ties to The Factory being the cover and back photographs taken by Warholite Billy Name, and opening track " Candy Says ," written about transsexual Candy Darling ( who would later appear in Reed's 1972 song, " Walk On The Wild Side ") The song was sung by Yule at Reed's insistence.

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

" ( Henry Yule, " Cathay and the way thither ")

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

Immediately following the College Walk festivities is one of Columbia's older holiday traditions, the lighting of the Yule Log.

* 1966 – The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.

The Horned God is born in winter, impregnates the Goddess and then dies during the autumn and winter months and is then reborn by the Goddess at Yule.

Imbolc is defined as a cross-quarter day, midway between the winter solstice ( Yule ) and the spring equinox ( Ostara ).

In chapter 14 of Saga of Hákon the Good a description of the pagan Germanic custom of Yule is given.

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

Yule is also used to a lesser extent in English-speaking countries to refer to Christmas.

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.

A description of " heathen " Yule practices is provided ( notes are Hollander's own ):

" 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.