" 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.

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

Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the pagan Yule feast " had a pronounced religious character " and comments that " it is uncertain whether the Germanic Yule feast still had a function in the cult of the dead and in the veneration of the ancestors, a function which the mid-winter sacrifice certainly held for the West European Stone and Bronze Ages.

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.

and Udny Yule, in 1903, had mentioned similar effects earlier.

The owner of the home, Mr. George Murray Yule, " had an illegal fireworks factory in the basement of his home.

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

In the Christmas special Knowing Me, Knowing Yule, Alan attributed his rash and erratic behaviour to the fact that Carol had left him on Christmas Eve.

Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Homer, Alaska, where her grandfather Yule Kilcher, a delegate to the Alaska State Constitutional Convention and a state senator, had settled after immigrating from Switzerland.

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.

WPIX and KTLA had The Yule Log on Christmas Morning for 4 hours.

* 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.

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.

The two had met by chance in 1935, and were on close terms until Yule's death in 1951 ( Yule was godfather to Kendall's second son ).

After Olga, drummer Martin Yule had the longest tenure in the band ( 1987 – 1999 ).

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

Burnell had died before the work was finished, and most of it was finished by Yule, who, however, deeply acknowledges Burnell's contributions.

Morrison argued that Doug Yule, who had replaced Cale in 1968, should be included to fill out the sound, but Reed and Cale vetoed him.

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.

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.

Other actors and actresses who featured on the show included Peter Sellers, Fred Yule, Patricia Hayes, Kenneth Connor, Pat Coombs and Graham Stark ; Sellers ' earliest appearances predated The Goon Show by a couple of years.

Though praised by Dewart and of sufficient repute in her day to be included in Archibald MacMurchy ’ s Handbook of Canadian literature ( English ) ( Toronto, 1906 ), Yule ’ s writing may strike the contemporary reader as somewhat artificial and didactic.

Yule assembled a backing band consisting of Rob Norris ( guitar ), George Kay ( bass guitar ) and Mark Nauseef ( drums ) to tour the United Kingdom in November and December 1972 to promote the upcoming album ; a live recording from this tour is included on the 2001 live box set Final V. U. 1971-1973.

In the spring of 1973 at the urging of a tour manager, Yule and some friends toured New England with a new group, which included some Velvet Underground material in their set lists.

In 1925 Yule published the paper " A Mathematical Theory of Evolution, based on the Conclusions of Dr. J. C. Willis, F. R. S.

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.

* Yule H, Burnell AC.

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.

** Aðfangadagskvöld, the day when the 13th and the last Yule Lad arrives to towns.

** Earliest date for Yule in the northern hemisphere, and Midsummer in the southern hemisphere.

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.

The Vikings celebrated Yule, which later contributed to the Twelve Days of Christmas, or the " Daft Days " as they were sometimes called in Scotland.

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

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

** Litha / Midsummer celebrations in the northern hemisphere, Yule in the southern hemisphere.

* G. U. Yule.

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.

The Saxon calendar began on 25 December, and the months of December and January were called Yule ( or Giuli ) and contained a Modra niht or " night of the mothers ", another religious festival of unknown content.

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

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.

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