10 ways to celebrate Yule like a Viking
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- Here are 10 ways to celebrate yuletide like a Viking!
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As a Native American during this time of year it is actually supposed to be a very spiritual time of good and evil
It’s funny as a kid before I became aware of how Yule was celebrated that we were pretty much celebrating Christmas Ike traditional Yule in my family.
Sounds like a great upbringing to me!
Us too!
Us too! ❤
Ditto.
I loved it despite i'm not a Norwegian,but it's good to see other cultures,me personally i love the history of vikings and i really love your country sir.
I showed this to my history class in America and we loved it. Thanks for teaching us about Yule.
That’s really cool to hear! I’m glad the class enjoyed it! I wish you all good Yuletide!
Great Video! Have a Happy Winter Solstice and God Jul!
I will absolutely celebrate it this way with my viking friends here in Denmark
You are telling so well about it.
Looking forward to hear more from you.
This one, I really liked, being a filthy heathen my self .
Definitely celebrating, mainly by myself and new to all of this. Celebrated Mothering Night last night with candles lit in honor of some deceased ancestors plus, there was ham. 😁
Tonight celebrating with alighting a lot of candles plus, a special one and so forth…
Thank you for your video, your voice is nice to listen to. Happy Yule!
Its crazy how the culture is in modern celebrations without most people knowing the origin.
I learn something from every video. This time just how close the Christian Christmas is to the true Yule celebrations. I try to celebrate Yule rather than Christmas if I can and have a Nordic theme to my decorations.
Cen you please made more videos about viking celebrations like Disting Ostara and others
It will be great
Yeah, that's a good idea. I might be doing that for next year!
I discovered my Norse ancestry about 6 months ago and I still have a lot to learn. But I'm looking forward to celebrating my first Yule. I really lucked out a few days ago when I found a Julnir/Julfather figurine in a thrift store. I enjoyed this video very much, and I wish all fellow heathens a safe and happy Jul! Skol!
Me too. I grew up without religion, but by my early teens I independently celebrated the solstice and equinox. I thought I was all German, but 40 years ago I got a book on Norse mythology and my tree featured upside down Oden gingerbread men lol. I love working wood and blacksmithing and felt like I was ment to build Viking boats. 20 years ago I had my dna tested. I’m mostly Norse! I even have a bit of Irish which I found out was because men picked up Irish women on the way to Iceland.
All swedish holidays are still to this day celebrated for 3 days.
I celebrate as a heathen every Xmas!
The problem here is that the only information we have for a Scandinavian Yule festival comes from two 13th century Christian Icelandic writers writing several hundred years after these events would have last taken place (if at all). We do not know where they got their information from, how accurate that information was, or if they interpreted it correctly. They may have simply written a description of pagan rituals from the dark dim past as imagined by a Christian writer - colourful fiction. Also, Yule may simply refer to the mid-winter season rather than a specific festival. The Danes in England used the word to describe the Festival of the Nativity.
Yule logs are actually German - the earliest reference to the burning of a log during the Christmas period is from Christian Germany in 1184 from where it spread to neighbouring countries including the northern ones by the 19th century.
All the historical evidence points to the origins of the 'Christmas Tree' in 16th century Germany.
The English 'Father Christmas' has nothing to do with the Vikings or Odin - the earliest personification of Christmas is in a carol of about 1450 where he is described as 'Sir Christmas'. Other later names include 'Captain Christmas', 'Prince Christmas' and 'The Christmas Lord' and increasingly 'Father Christmas'.
Informative and enjoyable as always. Happy Yule to you Christopher!
Thanks Doomfruit! God jul to you too!
Hi-ya. Nice Video! I would not have known that you are new-ish to You Tube. I appreciate your time to bring us this information. Yule is much more spiritually aligned with what I believe in. Keep going! Where are you in the world?
Thanks for the support David! I’m based in Norway!
The Viking game. I’m interested!
I'll make a dedicated about video the game later!
Great video!!
Cool cool video because it shows that the Norse culture is alive in everyday life and can be felt and seen. That is as close as you can get to a time machine. I've researched religion very deeply and I can honestly say that the Christian holidays as they are called have much more in common with pagan culture then biblical Christianity. It's fascinating how the pagan culture merged with the Christian culture, or maybe it's the other way around and Christian culture merged with pagan? The celebrations the Norse of 1200 years ago were familiar with would have been different but rooted way way WAY back into the bronze age and beyond.
It seems the word for boar, a pig, and beer, a beverage, across Northern European languages from Frisian, to Saxon, but not Norse, was very similar. I am eating turkey for my longest night.
My German parents made headcheese from the head of a pig. I am sure it was a spiritual tradition.
Enjoyed it. Always nice to honor our ancestors.
Cool Yule video. Thanks 😊
Sunna is a sun goddess baldur is a a god of light
I really hate Christmas but I really loved this episode. Good job handsome :)
Thanks Anna! Maybe Yule would be a better fit for you? :)
@@NorseReign dragging big trunks from nature, setting it on fire and never letting it it die? Sounds a like the army.... So... No! Haha
@@AValkyria 😆
The large ritual following Yule done on the first New Moon after the solstice
We need a sacrifice of christian blood
Never understood that christmas tree tradition before this video. Now it makes sense. Thanks ! :D Probably some correlation to why most of our barns till recent times was typically painted in red/white too, I guess.
Thank you for this video it is the best source of informations what i found about Yule and it is very qualite video
Thank you kindly!
ah so they drank 20L of alcohol, danced around and sacrified their baybay's to a burnin phallus..... now it all makes sense.
I love everything Viking! I love all your detailed documentation, graphics, sound effects and music! I share your videos to my Facebook, viking groups. Awesome job! 💞❄🎄🎅🏹
Anita, thanks for the support! I really appreciate that! Thank you so very much!
@@NorseReign keep up the great work! It's appreciated and loved 💞🙏
@@NorseReign are you going to post a Winter Solstice one?
@@AFaragher I'm not making one specifically about Winter Solstice this year, but I will probably do one next year.
Thanks!
I’ve always heard that traditional Yule was on the first Full Moon after the Winter Solstice.
As someone from a mostly Latin American family, our family celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas starting from Christmas Eve through January 6th, the Feast of the Epiphany/Wise Men, with the biggest day of feasting/importance being Christmas Eve and then a "closing of ceremonies " type of celebration on Jan. 6th. The in-between days are about smallsr gatherings with friends and family who couldn't make it to Christmas Eve. When I had my only residence with a working fireplace, my mom and I also added a real Yule log tradition. I celebrate Yule with my pagan friends on/around the actual Winter Solstice with some of the same traditions you listed in your video. As a history lover, I appreciate your video work and want to wish you a Happy Yule.
Definitely the Yule log, definitely NOT the animal sacrifice. I love this list though, it really helps me with ideas for this year, how I can celebrate, since I'm a solo heathen. Thank you for putting this content out!
they were eaten afterward, so no different than butchering an animal to eat
@@hyperboreanforeskinand your point?
Happy Yule well in this life im in latinamerica not much norse roots around here but i will celebrated with a good ham and turkey chicken with my mom she dont believe this things but it doesnt matter the gods knows im with their side.Ill drink to Odin and bragi.
Have a blessed Yule!
Comment for the algorithm 🌲
Question:
Would the persons going about dressed as the Yule Goat be the origins of the Krampus figure, as they seem to at least bear a passing physical resemblance?
I can see in the early days of Christianity, the transitional generations, that while the goat [the man in goat skin and mask] would be viewed as benevolent by the Pagans, the Christians would imbue it with a more demonic meaning.
Your opinion(s)?
It is called Julebukk today (christmas billy goat)) - and it is like trick or treat, just that you dress in christmas clothes, mostly the kids, and go inside to people you know and laugh and talk and have fun, and get some christmas treats. Thats how I remember it, not many left that still do this old tradition. In the earliest days they used the goat skins and before that it propably started with an annual marking of the new year by butchering and eating a goat. This tradition has had a long history and many changes while society has changed. A lot of other traditions and other stuff is still here but many do not know their norse original meaning and context any longer.
I dont dress up as a goat, but I will make some Yule log cake this year! 🤭
Sounds delish! The cake is indeed based on the yule log tradition of the Vikings.
Was either that or getting an axe and chomping up a tree 🌳 but im more skilled in the kitchen!
As a vegetarian,all the animals sacrificed is a problem!
Your entitled to your opinion. Every religion believes the animals were put on this earth to not only be eaten but worshipped and thanked for providing meat and nutrition.
@@kevinflorence581There was no intensive cruel factory farming. Just a small homestead with live stock. Raising the animal and giving it to the Gods was a sacrifice. It s spirit was thanked for the meat and nothing was wasted. That's how it should be. Our ancestors would not have survived as vegans or vegetarians. Meat and fish were a crucial part of the diet.
I’m going to live the old ways. I am constantly on the move working six days a week and sweating my ass off on my day off as well.
No the massacre of animals inhumanly is not okay. But also you have to realize Vegans have a distorted view. Vegan burgers are made of beans. Those beans are in open farms. Any animal that gets close to the farm are massacred and thrown in the trash. So who’s really right? Animals aren’t being celebrated and honored as intended either way unless you hunt your own livestock or grow your own vegetables.
YES...we plan to celebrate in the way of my heathen ancestors. Great Video...I liked and subscribed!! So excited to look more into your channel!! SKOL
Liked and subscribed to your channel... I subscribe carefully, not wanting 4000 notifications. I am inheriting some money. Intend to start a sustainable Viking (Norse Pagan) community soon, spring 2024. Central Illinois, USA, initially, then NW Arkansas. Anyone interested?
For Mikkio Addi Thomasson. Mikkio, the Finnish forest god (sounds like Michael), Addi ( germanic, noble one), Thomasson (is your dad still in Mexico?). God Jul!
God Yule!
Always decorate the evergreens ..have a yule goat and burn the yule log. ...save the leftover for next year....instead of ham I eat either deer..duck wild turkey etc..whatever I got while hunting. SKOL...have a great Yule everyone!
Nice video, we have in my family the tradition of Brageskål. Where we proclaim something we will accomplish in the year to come 😁
Good tradition!
Thanks so much for this informative and concise video. As a pagan, I've been trying to incorporate more Yule traditions into the very long American Christmas season. People put up their 🎄 on November 1st here! I don't have children, so I prefer to wait until mid December to start the Yuletide celebrations!
I stumbled on your channel and beginning with the next Yule I plan to make my own Norse based yuletide celebrations. Thank you for this video.
My Grandparents were Lutherans, but also wished us "God Jul", hung a straw Julbak on the tree and served ham for the Christmas Eve feast. I love Jesus and also honor tradition of my Norse ancestors. I think setting Christmas near Solstice meant they were intended to be celebrated rated together, as I have done and will continue to do. I raise my mead horn to all! Merry Christmas and God Jul!
Sounds like my Father’s family and they are Scottish. The adults all bring Scotch we play chess by the fire.
Hey, i think you forgot a very, very important thing: Smoking rituals with natural substances such as tree resin, leaves and flowers. This was an integral part of celebrations back then and also in everyday life.
One funny practice that I keep every year is to string my recurve bow and use it to shoot through every fall pumpkin left in the home, no matter how small (I do this on a range, of course). I cannot stop loosing arrows until every pumpkin is pierced. The pumpkins are then left as offerings in a nearby marsh. During that time, I do not carry a gun. Instead I keep an impact weapon, a blade, or a bow. This way I am encouraged to keep proficiency with ancestral weapons. I feel that the archery in particular has a special resonance with the Wild Hunt.
I don’t see how any of these rituals could translate into modern American culture. Your neighbors might call the cops.
Just found your channel. Pretty interesting stuff. Keep it going
There is not any evidence that exists that says Christian holidays are based off of pagan holidays except for Easter in the English language being named after an Anglo-Saxon goddess. Other than that there is absolutely no evidenced to say Christmas is pagan. In fact apparently the early Christians thought it a sin to celebrate Christ's birthday because celebrating birthdays was...pagan
I have an old LP record, with old world Christmas. It has one of the later depictions of Oden shown in this film.
Great information here. Thank you
Good video! Along with some of what you covered we also had our kids "earn" gifts by saying times tables or something small like that.
Just new here. Great video! Much love from Scotland
My father was Lithuanian and Polish. He said he thought he was a Viking because he didn't like to zip up his winter coat in the winter. What do you think?
My mom side of family is from copehagan Denmark, Helligso is there last name
I made my Norman Viking candles out of lard for Xmas, and I’m sending him home w the makings to do it w his son. I’m so excited! Merry Christmas.
We do yule not any Christian festival l taught my children the old ways we open gifts on 22nd then we spend family time then we get drunk eat food generally have a good time we prefer handmade goods like nail binded socks gloves scarfs hats we do viking re-enactment so these items were used all year
Watching from the Faroe Islands
Let’s connect anyone near Minneapolis St Paul or just want to chat? I got my two nieces 9 noble virtues signs i hope they appreciate.
Breadcrumbs for the algorithm.
First I have seen of your videos but look forward to seeing many more
We are going to light fire lanterns and write our intentions for the new year. Thank you for this awesome content!
I am Suebian Saxon. We had similar practices.
Thank you from Australia 🇦🇺
me and my 2 brothers not blood go in to the woods for 3 days of yule and pry to the gods and camp under the stars
That was Great Video . Skøl💀🍻
Your videos are great!
Greetings! Thank you for this great video. You do a great job,so welcome to you tube!
We practice the old ways,and it is good to see our ways represented here. Blessings upon u, skal! Blessed Yule!
Thanks for the support and happy to hear that the old ways ares till being practiced! Happy Winter Solstice!
@@NorseReign there are very few left, but we remain. You made me proud. I head off into the mountain alone with renewed spirit, and hopes of the returning light. May Freya bless you 1000 times. Do not be shaken by the weak ,but stand in all the gods gave you. Good journey.
Lovely - Merry Christmas
i wish i could find a ham like 5:45 :)
Liked and subscribed.
content starts at 2:00 in..
Thanks for sharing.
I love your content
Hey man just leaving comment for the algorithm
Always been interested in vikings and since I got older I have taken on norse paganism and I'm trying to learn more about our ways
I'm england born christened
And never got anything from Christianity
I used to go to church as well
Lost what little faith I had along time ago and started looking into my viking history over past 2 years and possible routs on both my mother's and fathers due to there surnames
Fell and rayner
Fell derived from the skandanavian Fell wanderers
Rayner in viking is ragnar
Will be watching more of your videos for advice and knowledge
May odin be with you brother
Appreciate the support! Always intriguing to map down one’s family history!
Paganism is exciting to learn more about for me as well and hoping to make more videos on this topic too!
Gid jul, as we say in Norway! :)
What's a heathen?
Have a cool Yule! ❤
Glad Jul brother!
Enjoyed it
Love Yule ❣️
Love this❤
Thank you
Very cool 😎
Thank you
thank you
would you say that Gløgg is an imitation of blot? kind of sounds like it.
I haven’t thought of that. I like the idea tho!
Fascinating. I might do a story blog set in my fictional shapeshifter world which includes Vikings, of course. Smiles!
skol
Awesome video, thank you , will share this with my niece who is learning our religion.
I love your channel. Have a happy yule, blessed be..
Really awesome video, cool info. My father's father with his 2 brothers came from Norway, always wanted to visit it when I grew up , but haven't had the chance yet..
Thanks Christopher, this just came on my feed from a year ago! I appreciate you exploring and implementing our pagan/heathen-pre-christian, stolen heritage! Crazy how the algorithm gods aren't distributing certain people!
great video ! loads of research went into this !outstanding !!
thanks for the helpful and educational video. i like the celebration of yule more than the modern celebration of christmas, which is why we host a winter solstice celebration at our house.
new fav yule vid