The Viking Dragon Blog

As an agricultural and seafaring society, the turning of the seasons was very important to old Norse culture. The average Norseman or woman would have based their tasks for the day, week or month o...

Yule traditions that you might still celebrate today     When we first learn about Christmas as children, we’re told that our holiday traditions are based on the Nativity story. However, if you st...

 Yule was one of the most important festivals in the old heathen calendar. As the days drew short and the nights grew long, there were celebrations as well as a tinge fear in the cold, crisp air. T...

In Scandinavia they don't call it Christmas (Christ-Mass), instead they still retain the old pagan name for the Yuletide celebrations which they call Jul (pronounced Yule). Yule was a pagan festiva...