Norse Yuletide Sacrifices Had (Almost) Nothing To Do With The Winter Solstice — Brute Norse

Norse Yuletide Sacrifices Had (Almost) Nothing To Do With The Winter Solstice — Brute Norse: In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. – Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane Yule lads roasting on an ope