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Prepare for the high festival

When to celebrate the heathen yule-tide. How to calculate the date, and what to eat, how to celebrate and generally be a genuin heathen. The yule-tide pre-christian time reckoning.

Yes ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the time is drawing near. Time to prepare the beds and set the table for our guests. The predecessors. Before, in Norway (and other places one might presume), the family gave up their beds, and slept on hay on the livingroom floor.

We are of course talking about Yule/Jól/Jul. The three days enclosing the full moon in January this year, the 27th, 28th and 29th (2021) is your window for participating in the traditional celebration. You will find an explanation here.