Re: Religious Festivities

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Laurie Gerholz wrote:
> > Many neo-pagan groups celebrate the winter solstice, which falls around
> > December 20 or 21 in the northern hemisphere. One term for this holiday
> > is "Yule", but I'm sorry I can't remember the language of origin of the
> > term.
>=20
> English.  The term is synonymous with Christmas, as in the carol "sing
> we all the Yuletide carol, fa la la ..."
>=20
Even older than that is Old Norse and Icelandic /j=F3l/.

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