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YULE – Day of Winter Solstice 12/21/2016
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Posted on 12/21/2016 11:12:36 AM PST by heterosupremacist

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To: SamAdams76

not to worry...... it can’t


21 posted on 12/21/2016 4:32:37 PM PST by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: heterosupremacist

“Children would traipse from house to house with gifts of apples and oranges spiked with cloves and resting in baskets lined with evergreen boughs.”

I seriously doubt that Viking children before 1100 had access to Oranges and Cloves, especially in December. This is an anachronism.


22 posted on 12/21/2016 7:25:18 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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