Yule Traditions in the North Part 1: Ancient Rituals

About this episode

Amina and Mathias explore Yule traditions in the North, discussing pre-Christian Scandinavian rituals and their connections to Celtic traditions.

Amina and Mathias dive into Yule traditions in the North. first, they talk about some aspects of pre-Christian Scandinavian jól -including if it even really existed, its place in the calendar, and what rituals took place in the period- and then they branch out to Celtic traditions. At the very end the pair derail themselves and get sucked into a conversation about Germanic and Celtic loans, the origin of things we think are Celtic and Germanic, and the stereotypes about Celtic and Germanic pe...

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Hosts: Amina Otto, Mathias Nordvig

Topics covered

• Yule traditions
• pre-Christian rituals
• Scandinavian culture
• Celtic traditions
• Germanic influences

Keywords

• Yule
• Scandinavian
• Celtic
• Germanic
• rituals
• traditions
• pre-Christian

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Scandinavian, Celtic, Germanic

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