The Norse Origins of Christmas Traditions

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

What is your favourite Christmas tradition? Let us know!

[@happyhedgewytch4573]

Such an informative video...love it!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Glad you liked it!

[@kimkinsey6042]

Great information

[@GentleJungle]

Yule Tidings everyone.💖🎄

[@PresentasiSejarahCandra]

Our day names, Our traditions, and Our festival culture in Holy Day is mostly adopt from Ancient Babylonian, Roman, and Norse culture. Days of the Gods

[@elaineleslie-kf6pq]

Wonderful video, as always. I learned a lot. Did not know the Tuesday comes from name of a Norse god!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you! We're so glad that you learnt something new. 😊

[@Tekmirion]

Happy holidays and happy new year!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Same to you!

[@magnusjonsson7714]

Santa is Oden (Odinir) who comes to homes.

[@kimkinsey6042]

Great videos

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@mohamedmostafa1375]

Merry Christmas to all my Christian brothers and sisters all over the world.

[@natv6558]

😂🤣😅 this video was a little “triggering” was it?

[@ROMA--AETERNA]

…and European brothers & sisters all over the world.

[@alejandrosakai1744]

Saturnalia: Dancing to (G)I-DLE. Yule: Dancing to Lisa Manoban

[@macariomatira3234]

We Wish to have a feature video about the Philippines under Ferdinand E. Marcos from 1965 to 1986

[@kevinkant6817]

Lol, this channel is about ancient times

[@stevenbrown9275]

Great video! Merry Christmas to all of you.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks Steven, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@iyeetpaste3797]

No Christmas!! Pillage all the churches in the name of Odin!

[@dorritsmedsgard5900]

My favourite tradition is my Julebuk (Yulegoat)

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Nice! Thanks for watching!

[@magnusjonsson7714]

Laundryday= Lögadag= Lördag=Saturday= washing day

[@davidcraddock8329]

interesting nice vid

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you! 🙂

[@EndlessJoint]

God Jul!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

🙂🎄

[@tadeuszjaworski7170]

How come the winter solstice fell on 25th December 2000 years ago if there is a precession movement which means it should have fallen on the day in late November or early December?

[@randonolso]

There’s a lot of information in this video that isn’t necessarily correct. Pre-Christianity Yule was celebrated on the 3rd equinox after the beginning of winter which was marked by the full moon in October, which would put Yule celebrations taking place on the first full moon of the new year, just as one example.

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[@korgen-rock]

You forgot an important thing that is very important in Norway. Christmas beer. Tradition from the Viking age. Everyone had to brew Christmas beer. If they didn't, they were punished

[@magnusjonsson7714]

There are some pagan traditions in swe. Like "christmas tree" = Yggdrasil. A goat is formed as Thors goat.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

👍🏻🙂

[@magnusjonsson7714]

+ its tradition to eat christmas ham (julskinka in swedish). Its told that the ham (pig) is the same pig as Särimner, the pig that warriors eat in Vallhalla and ressurects the next day.

[@Davlavi]

for the algorithm

[@daniellmarcussen2599]

Jul did not start on solstice. Jul started on the first full moon after the first new moon after winter solstice. This means that jul did not start on the same calendar date from year to year.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

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[@omarmaxwell2319]

Hi

[@wodenofnorthumberland9706]

No, actually the English had the same gods that's why we have the days of the week as such. The Ænglisc and norse were essentially cousins. We didnt get the names from the norse otherwise Wednesday would be odnesday. woden was the English name for him.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

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[@magnusjonsson7714]

The english language was much inspired by the scandinavians, and Normandie and etc ofc. In swedish week is: Monday =Måndag=Moonsday, Tuesday = Tisdag = Thyrs day Onsdag = Wedneday = Wot/danday= Odins day, Thurday = Torsdag Thors day Friday =Frey/Freya, Lördag Saturday, Söndag = suns day

[@rhiannonfugatt3269]

I liked this video til you began talking about the Celtic calendar, as Jul is not Celtic it is Nordic. While there are many similarities between the ancient Celts and the Nords they were not the same and can not be intermixed or they lose their distinction.

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[@demisnii1718]

Everything you say is quite alright but why you stop to the Celtics as the origin of the Nordic/Hellenic Gods and Religions, as you know the Celts are descendants of Hellenes/ and all their festivities are copied pasted from the Hellenes (of course the same Gods and Goddesses, with the same identities and powers, are named differently from time to time or from space to space, for example, the Hellenic God, Becomes the Celtic God, who is the Nordic God)

[@technicholls]

So, since all these traditions are based on pagan gods and false religious beliefs and NOT the birth of the Christ, why would true christians have anything to do with it? Didn't the Ten Comments forbid worshiping other gods?

[@nathankloske9313]

I'm sure you meant commandments not comments. :) And what makes a Christian "true" anyway? With 45,000 denominations of Christianity around the world to choose from, are any of them objectively "true"?

[@jadecanonoel6247]

@@nathankloske9313 when Christ puts faith (Ephesians 2:8-10) in your heart , birth you by His will ( Jhon 1:13) accepts you as His son (Hebrews 12:6) agonize over your sin ,deny self, take up your cross daily(Matthew 16:24-26) hunger and thirst after truth(righteousness) Matthew 5:6 , live right ….that’s true Christian faith. May the Lord God grant you eyes to see and ears to hear 🙏Agape and Phileo.

[@historian252]

You bring up the different branches as if that is supposed to say it isn't true. A Christian is a man or woman who believes in God and that his son Jesus, lord and Savior, died for the sins of those who would believe him and in trhough him they can find salvation. Any "denomination" in Christian revolves less around Jesus being the one to bring salvation and more on who he is, the rituals they perform in worship and how the church is operated.

[@historian252]

One they say that Christmas is based off pagan rituals when that simply isn't true. Christmas was celebrated long before they came to Northern Europeans. Two any of the "traditions" that were brought along have nothing to do with celebrating false gods or creatures. They are merely things Christians have used in festivals such ad the tree where people decorate it and bring gifts to each other but Christmas itself revolves around celebrating the birth of Jesus not about celebrating false gods.

[@cyrille-gauvinfrancoeur6199]

​@@historian252 The only false god is that of Christians, Jews and Muslims.

[@bettinasommer8206]

I am an actual historian of comparative religion and specialist of Norse pre-Christian religion. Almost every single word in this video about Christmas and Celtic and Nordic mythology (not quite every word but almost) is utter hogwash and completely invented nonsense with absolutely zero basis in the sources. The amount of nonsense is simply too much for me to go through and disbunk. I don´t know who this girl is, but she is no scholar of Nordic religion. It is a disgrace that the World History Encyclopedia spreads nonsense and disinformation on this level.

[@jacquelinegorospe4334]

That's why traditions are not holy'

[@valeria5655]

What are the sources for any of this? It's pop history and misleading at best. Yule has nothing to do with Christmas other than that the two vaguely coincide in the same months, the rest of the world isn't centered around the Germanic one. This is a Euro-centric, or I should be more specific, Germano-centric myth at best. 12 days of Christmas isn't exclusive to Germanic regions of the world and has nothing to do with "Odin", in fact, it was at the council of Tours in 537 that they proclaimed the twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany are a sacred and festive season, and established the duty of Advent fasting in preparation for the feast. This was done in part to solve the administrative problem for the Roman Empire in which different calendars were used between the East and the West. Christmas trees have their root in Protestant Germany in the 16th Century, that is many centuries after paganism had died out in those regions. It only spread to the rest of the world somewhere after the 19th century. Meanwhile there is 0 evidence whatsoever that ties them to paganism, the best you have is finding them vaguely similar, which goes as far as "they both happen to decorate trees". As is with practically all of these pop history myths.

[@gunterra1]

Christian Chrismas in December originally had nothing at all to do with the month of December. It was simply put there by the early Christian missionaries to "get a foot in the door" you might say with the local population in Northern Europe, and unless some of the old customs, Christmas tree, giving of gifts, etc. were added to Christian customs, Christianity wouldn't have had much of a chance to be adopted. Politics and public relations we would call that today.

[@WowINeedAName]

Not to be a fire starter, but the bible literally instructs its followers not to worship trees or worship like the "Gentiles" worship. Gentiles being the pagan neighbors. This is why celebrating Christmas and caroling was actually outlawed by puritan settlers in America. It was sought out as sinister. Wasn't until later when the Dutch brought over their native Germanic customs you saw trees pop back up. There is also no record of the celebration of Christmas for the first three centuries of Christianity. It was created by the church for the population to be incentivized to convert because Romans were still partaking in Saturnalia and celebrating Sol Invictus. I know this will probably be ignored because everytime I tell a Christian their holidays are actually based on other cultures beliefs, they shut down and ignore it. Christmas is nothing though. Research on why people dye eggs at Easter. Skál.

[@historian252]

Stop trying to post lies when Christmas was formed not to make other people avoid pagan celebrations but to actually celebrate the birth and death of Jesus.

[@historian252]

That is not true. Christianity already spread to those regions without much fuss and continued to grow throughout the population. Most of those events had nothing to do with pagans and only involved them when it came to the small remnants still remaining to bring some small semblance of the former rituald but no worshipping false gods or worshipping inanimate objects.

[@WowINeedAName]

@@historian252 with a name like historian, you'd think you'd have a little more grasp on things. I've given up on trying to teach Christians because they'll choose ignorance of history and science so long as they think they're following their faith. The best guess historians have been able to place the birth of Jesus is sometime in September.. thanks for the input though.