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2. Heathen holidays - Wikipedia

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   The modern Icelandic festival of Þorrablót is sometimes considered a "pagan holiday" due to folk etymology with the name of the god Thor. [5] The name, while historically attested, is derived from Þorri which is not explicitly linked to Thor, instead being the name of a month in the historic Icelandic calendar and a legendary Finnish king.

3. Yule - Wikipedia

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   The modern English noun Yule descends from Old English ġēol, earlier geoh(h)ol, geh(h)ol, and geóla, sometimes plural. [1] The Old English ġēol or ġēohol and ġēola or ġēoli indicate the 12-day festival of "Yule" (later: "Christmastide"), the latter indicating the month of "Yule", whereby ǣrra ġēola referred to the period before the Yule festival (December) and æftera ġēola ...

4. 7 of the best Christmas cruises for 2024/25 - AOL

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   Viking: Christmas on the Rhine Basel - Breisach - Strasbourg - Mannheim - Rudesheim - Koblenz - Cologne - Dordrecht - Amsterdam Visit Christmas markets on the contintent (Viking Cruises)

5. Viking (cruise line) - Wikipedia

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   The company was established by Torstein Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia as Viking River Cruises in 1997. Hagen had become involved in cruising as a McKinsey and Company consultant who helped the Holland America Line survive the 1973 oil crisis, then was CEO of the Royal Viking Line from 1980 to 1984, made money in the Russian private equity markets, then bought a controlling stake in a Dutch ...

6. List of Christmas markets - Wikipedia

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   Deepdale Christmas Market – Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk [92] Exeter Christmas Market – Exeter, Devon [93] Frankfurt Christmas Market – Birmingham [94] Frankfurt Christmas Market – Leeds [95] Lincoln Christmas Market – Lincoln (1982–2022) [96] Liverpool Christmas Market – Liverpool [97] Bankside Winter Market – Bankside, London

7. Christmas in Norway - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] All hunting, but not fishing, is prohibited on these days; during julefred ("Christmas Peace") there is a closed season on all wild animals. The First and Second Day of Christmas (December 25 and 26) are holidays, and all businesses are closed. December 25 is usually considered a very private holiday, when one sees only family.

8. Celtic calendar - Wikipedia

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   Diagram comparing the Celtic, astronomical and meteorological calendars. Among the Insular Celts, the year was divided into a light half and a dark half.As the day was seen as beginning at sunset, so the year was seen as beginning with the arrival of the darkness, at Calan Gaeaf / Samhain (around 1 November in the modern calendar). [4]

9. Viking expansion - Wikipedia

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   Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.