Discussion » A Very Merry Viking Christmas to Youse All!
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"Now, let's backtrack about seven hundred years. The Vikings were pretty big around the year 1000 (of course, being heathens, they didn't KNOW it was the year 1000), and they had also figured out that things started to get brighter around December. Which was a perfect opportunity for a big party. This festivity, jul or yule, was pretty nuts. I mean, do you remember the party in Weird Science where the piano flew up the chimney and a motorcycle gang trashed the house and a nuclear missile materialized in the middle of the living room and Anthony Michael Hall got laid? That was peanuts to Viking Christmas. There was fighting and vomiting, kids got alcohol poisoning, animals and slaves were killed, people had sex in the pool... pandemonium, I tell you.
It's a holiday for the whole family to embrace in the warmth of each other's love.
After Saint Olav christened Norway in its own blood, only two major elements from the Norse jul survived and was absorbed into international Christmas traditions: "