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 ...

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 ...

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 ...