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Re: Religious Festivities

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Saturday, December 26, 1998, 5:29
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/. -------ferke Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Es to pilni'gi noliedzu! Personal page: http://www.extra.hu/svejk/index.html Tu-134 page: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/7482/ railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ conlang page: http://members.tripod.com/~tuonela/ Uralica: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/3259/ Zaradi politicnega delovanja je oblast v letu 1982 razpustila: Svobodo (Laibach)