December 2010
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Yule Feasting in the Dark Ages
As winter’s shadow darkens its time to reflect on the olden ceremony of Yule. The Venerable Bede wrote of the Anglo-Saxon Yule celebration in 730 AD, commenting:
“They began the year with December 25, the day some now celebrate as Christmas; and the very night to which we attach special sanctity they designated by the heathen term Mōdraniht, that is, the mothers’ night — a...