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Yule

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The old name for the festival of Christmas, originally a heathen one, observed at the winter solstice in joyous recognition of the return northward of the sun at that period, being a relic in the N. of the old sun worship.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Yule'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​y/yule.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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