Yule
Yule, or jol is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The word Yule itself comes from the Old English geōl.
After their conversion, the Anglo-Saxons continued to use geōl as the name for the great Christian feast occurring at nearly the same time, Christmas. Other pagan peoples speaking Germanic languages held similar festivals, and among the Norse, the winter festival was called jōl, using the Old Norse equivalent of Old English geōl.
