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Yule -

One of eight solar holidays, Yule is celebrated on the winter solstice between December 20 - 23. Read more about this holiday on Wikipedia.org - read more

While the name "Yule" is used, it is not a reconstruction of the historical holiday. Wreaths, Yule logs, decoration of trees, decorating with mistletoe, holly, and ivy, exchanges of presents, and even wassailing are incorporated and regarded as sacred.

The modern English word Yule likely derives from the word yoole, from 1450, which developed from the Old English term geol and geola before 899. The term has been linked to and may originate from the Old Norse Jol, which refers to a Germanic pagan feast lasting 12 days that was later Christianized into Christmas. A 12-day period between the two halves—or "monaths"—became the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas. With the return to the Latin-based calendar through the invading Normans, the definition narrowed to mean Christmas day only in the combined Christian Norman and Anglo-Saxon England.

Jol may derive from Old Norse hjol, wheel, referring to the moment when the wheel of the year is at its low point, ready to rise again (compare to the Slavic karachun). This theory seems based more on similarities between the words jul and hjul (with a mute h) in modern Scandinavian languages, than on older cognates or historical sources.

The holiday is related to Christmas.

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