Many of these traditions were strongest in the former Viking homelands of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Denmark, where Yule goats and wassailing carried on long after the disappearance of the old gods.

While the long night of Yule Festival cued the beginning of longer days, it also meant time with family on Viking farmsteads. “The core of that farmstead would be your immediate family ...

Leather and fur-clad hordes are making their way to the family-friendly Yule Viking Festival, which continues this weekend at Avalon Faire in Kilgore. As the mind-melting sounds of Celtic Nova and ...

First served in the Great Hall at Oxford in 1420, this dish has been a feature of every Yule banquet there for ... the pen was definitely mightier than the pig-pen--or, perhaps, the word than ...

Well it is possible. Greenwich Gateway Visitor Centre, at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, is hosting Viking Yule a Christmas shopping event which looks sure to be more fun than a trip to ...

The Norse Herb Company of Woodland announced a brand-new holiday event: The Enchanted Viking Yule. The company, which also produces the Portal Marketplace Extravaganza event, says tickets to the event ...

The event marks the end of the Yule season in Nordic culture, and features “guizers” in Viking costume marching through Lerwick, bearing torches. The event culminated in the burning of an ...

Enter the Yule Viking Festival: a December event dedicated to entertaining and educating audiences about the Yule tradition. “My job is to pull the sun across the sky,” said Bridget Uhles. “I have my ...