The first full moon after the Winter Solstice 2022 will be on Friday January 6, 2023 6:08 PM EST or 11:08 PM UTC. It’s the January 2023 full moon, also called the Full Wolf Moon. Happy Yule Brothers

Greetings from Sweden. I have a vague memory from school. A teacher told me that the tradition of hanging red balls in the christmas tree comes from the pagan times when they made sacrifices and used to hang their sacrifices in the trees. so the red balls would be a symbol for the drips of blood from the sacrifices. I have no idea if this is complete BS or if it has some truth to it. Even so i think its a interesting theory. Love the content! Ive learned alot so thanks for that!

Pork? A lot of drinkng? Celebrating with friends and family? Honoring the gods and ancestors? I'm all for it! Hoping for a more recent video this year.

The best part of Haakon the good's saga is that he made it a law that you HAD to drink at least a certain amount of alcohol, regardless of whether you were celebrating christmas or jul

Well researched , just the facts...Yule being after the midwinter makes more sense in Far northerly climates, where it takes longer for the sun to "return", though may be trying to fit into a Roman style celebration and combine the two in Christianinty

pagan time is eternal! the lunar calendar makes a lot of sense. thanks again for another dose of high quality history to contextualize eternal connection.

very informative and educational you have really researched this carefully and i appreciate your attention to detail

I would love to learn more about Viking construction of their homes and ships

The part about oaths during celebration...I wonder if that's where the new year resolution came from

Thanks for this insightful video, where I could glean a little bit more knowledge in regards to the Germanic/Norse calendar and the feasts and blóts. I learned previously, and have included into my own calendar, that Midwinter Blót(Jul) was celebrated 3 full moons after Winternights/Houstblót full moon, and Victory Feast/Sigurblót 3 full moons after Midwinter. And the Wintersolstice was used as the measure to adjust the calendar approximately every 3 year cycles with a second Summer moon month inserted for balance. Following my calendar which is set to moon months, there will have to be the next adjustment made in 2023, in order to keep to the settings for the Winter Blóts the same, including the time distances in between. What I didn't know was the fact that Jul was called differently prior to King Haakon the Good (good?!?) moving the feast to the preceding solstice. So I will adjust my settings in my calendar and speak of Jul no more, unless I need to refer to Christian high days. Thank you again!

The similarities between Pagan and Christian traditions interest me greatly.

Do you think that Santa's original 8 raindeer each represent one of the legs of sleipnir?

Just a quick thought, but wouldn't the Sami people have some record of the original traditions? seems like they would be effected in some way, or for that much, any other neighboring faction. Surely if the Scandinavian pagans had regular huge feasts or what not someone would have noted.

there is a theory that the tradition of the christmas stocking, comes from that you would hangf up a stocking with hay for slepnir, when odin was bringing gifts

In Finnish december is still joulukuu (= julmånad, month of yule). At least in Finland christianity and paganism (old ways) lived side by side for a long time. I know that My greatgrandfather was a Church going christian during sundays and a pagan when doing magic for healing and hunting luck. This was from nothern-savonia (Savo/Savolax). I suppose that this kind of fenomenon and practise happend even in parts of Norway and Sweden.

Awesome.

I have loved marzipan for longer than I can remember, if I had to choose only one candy for the rest of this life and the next I would pick marzipan without a moments hesitation. Even now at the age of 42 I get bummed out if my mother doesn't give me some marzipan for during our families "christmas"* celebrations 😆 . I just wish there was a place near me that sold good quality marzipan, unfortunately its not easy to find in Midwestern America. * none of us are christians, Im Norse/Germanic pagan and the rest are somewhere in between and we celebrate around the same time as christmas since thats when everyone gets their days off.

Even early Americans drank a lot of alcohol. In a lot of ways, it was healthier than drinking plain water-it sanitized it.

Iceland, Jól, 24 december culminating on January 6th.

I got to celebrate a Yule based event at one of the sites Bede worked from last Sunday.

Tak!

The earliest Scandinavian writing makes no mention of a Yule festival. There are only two references that a festival called Yule was actually celebrated in Scandanavia. Both are from 13th century Christian Iceland and were written several hundred years after those events supposedly last occured (this includes the story of King Haaken). Where the source of the information came from or how accurate that information was is unknown. Nor is it known if that information was correctly interpreted.

06:52 what symbol is that on the shield?

Today seems to be the first full moon after the winter solstice so God Jul?

In russia they still celebrate christmas in january.

You've probably got this question a hundred times before, but - the Christmas tree/Julgran, or the Midsommarstång for that matter - are there any sources that speak of the tradition of rising a tree och a tree like pole in the pre christian time? I stumbled upon a source on the internet that claims that det cross formed Midsommarstång represents the tree of Yggdrasil it self, the top representing Asgård, the bar in the middle representing Midgård, and the two cirkles at the edges representing the Sun and the Moon. Furthermore the source also claims that the same type of tree like symbol was used during every main feast during the year, but as for the tree during the winter blots it was later replaced by a fir. I think the Midsommarstång theory has some interesting ideas to it but I smell a great deal of post construction. What are your thoughts on this? (Btw: The source appears to be written by an archaeologist I think. I can send you the link if you like.) Sorry if you already covered this in another video. Thank you for great videos and for sharing your knowledge! Regards/ Kim, Sweden

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Well if Jul is on the first full moon after Solstice, that makes it the Wolf Moon. I approve.

What's cool is when that new moon comes around it will be right under the sun in a conjunction.

the saga of haakon the good says that the second toast was for Njord and Freyja o_O

You forgot Odinn's gorse being 8 legged representing the 8 legged reindeer and donnar and blitzen are norse names .

In Sweden we got these kind of santas little helpers (nissar). Some Lives in the forest. Some in a barn and helping the farmer out with his animals and duties. Some lives and helps you in your garden. However, on the night before christmas you haft to put out a bowl of risgrynsgröt for him. otherwise he gonna kill one of your animals. My question is if this is a myth from asatro? Because it sure as hell dont sound christian 😆

We still drink today lol

juli=July

I am sorry, but I can not believe that only one king is able to change the date of a ceremony that existed for thousand or more years, and let al the groups of people follow that, it just does not work that way. I think it was the Christians trying to make the Yul less Pagan. I do believe some groups did it around the equinox and others with the first next full moon. In Russia they still do it on the 6th of January, don"t they?

Lebkuchen!

Raiding your rents refrigerator does not qualify you as being a viking either. Or saying skäl all the effin time

Pagans didnt have christmas holidays, christmas is about jesus and pagans ate pagans not christians

Any knowledge from English about the Norse would be bullshit

So mutch nonsens

I have a question… what deity or spirit is venerated for SNOW ❄️ ⛄️ ? I LOVE WINTER, and the snow… from what I’ve researched, Skadi is an etin that is responsible for it… but of course, the all father is the lord of the wild hunt (during winter)… and Freyr is also responsible for earthly weather… so what do U say, brother?